Quotes About Human

Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.

Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.