Quotes About Human

I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

Whatever I read about Emergency as a part and process of my film, I can say, as a citizen of a democratic country called India, I am certainly not 'for' Emergency, a decision that snatched away the normalcy of human life for 21 months.

These are human issues. These are human stories. I think that's why 'Fences' has been able to resonate and been able to hit so many people over the years because it is just that. You can't run away from the racial specifics of it, but that's just a part of it.

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.

That said, I'm also sensitive to the limitations of the scientific-materialist perspective and believe that nature (including the human mind) still holds deep mysteries toward which science can sometimes seem arrogant and unjustifiably dismissive.

Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing them all, our kith and kin.

human desires that link their destinies to our own.

as much about the human desires that connect us to these plants as it is about the plants themselves.

What a natural history of religion would show is that the human experience of the divine has deep roots in psychoactive plants and fungi. Karl Marx may have gotten in backward when he called religion the opiate of the people.

The adult human brain accounts for 2 percent of our body weight but consumes 18 percent of our energy, all of which must come from a carbohydrate.

Hare and Tomasello think that the social behavior of chimps is constrained by their temperament, and the human temperament is necessary for more complex forms of social cognition. In order to develop the level of cooperation that is necessary for humans to live in large social groups, humans had to become less aggressive and less competitive.

At an early age, it seems to be a part of the human condition to rebel against some type of authority as our perceptions of the world change with experience.

La présence d'une voix humaine structure l'espace qui la contient.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind,are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle, and without eccentricity.

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors of extraordinary and reforming opinions, and outwardly to affect the profession of them; who, if they are such fools, have, nevertheless, not the power to plant them in their own conscience.

Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité

El último extremo de la perfección en las relaciones que ligan a los humanos reside en la amistad;

The natural, original distemper of Man is presumption.

En cuanto al mandar, que parece tan fácil y hacedero, si se considera la debilidad del juicio humano y la dificultad de elección entre las cosas nuevas o dudosas, yo creo que es mucho más cómodo y más grato el obedecer que el conducir, y que constituye un reposo grande para el espíritu el no tener que seguir más que una ruta trazada de antemano, y el no tener tampoco que responder de nadie, más que de sí mismo:

Why was even the shallowest human conversation so fraught with pitfalls and tricky calibrations? Why couldn't people just keep silent until they had something essential to say, like the Oasans?

The crowds that queued for snacks and knick-knacks, the constant stream of passengers recorded by the closed-circuit TVs, were wondrous proof of the sheer variety of human specimens, except that they were presumed to be identically faithless inside, duty-free in every sense of that word.

She liked sheep more than any other animal; they had an innocence and a serene intentness about them that was worlds away from the brutish cunning and manic excitability of, say, vodsels. Seen in poor light, they could almost be human children.

Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn't have to function like a human.