Quotes About Human

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

Man is a reasoning Animal.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

Man is a biped without feathers.