Quotes About Human

Yet literal or figurative, only the human state, the mode that is balanced without too much suffering and too much comfort, is said to be conducive to future spiritual growth. An excess of suffering prevents people from ever giving thought to anything else since their minds are overwhelmed by pain, while an excess of comfort and happiness dulls the mind and gives no motivation for change.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

The more thoroughly a nation deals with its history, the more decidedly will it recognize and own an over-ruling Providence therein, and the more religious a nation it will become; while the more superficially it deals with its history, seeing only secondary causes and human agencies, the more irreligious will it be.

If one were to rely solely on radiocarbon dating, the whole human world would seem to have started just over 40,000 years ago. Only

The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.

As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?

The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.

What will limit us is not the possible evolution of technology, but the evolution of human purposes.

Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.

Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.

attention is the first and final act act of love, and that the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn't cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

The light enkindled by human kindness and love can give human life a brilliance and luster that will never be extinguished.

What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Or as Jakob Nielsen so aptly put it: The human brain's capacity doesn't change from one year to the next, so the insights from studying human behavior have a very long shelf life. What was difficult for users twenty years ago continues to be difficult today. I

If I ever wondered why so many people are so hostile to the tangible visible incarnations of the permeating invisible features of postmodern society, I need to look no further: according to populist narratives perpetuated by the media convergence, technology is the domain of experts who, having the wisdom of mini-deities invested with all the power of the corporate state, are not - cannot - be human.

One of the most spiritual things that can happen to you is a human breakthrough."

relationships are the real, evolving, living systems of human culture.