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Quotes About Human

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.
~ Eric Hoffer
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.
~ Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.
~ George Kukla
Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna
~ George R. R. Martin
In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.
~ Gertrude Atherton
We all make mistakes, probably the man most often.
~ Gilles Marini
It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.
~ Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
~ Lord Chesterfield
If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.
~ Malcolm de Chazal
Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul.
~ Margaret Case Harriman
There are no wild animals until man makes them so.
~ Mark Twain
God improvises. Man systematizes.
~ Mason Cooley
A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.
~ Max Lerner
How strange a thing is the heart of man!
~ Murasaki Shikibu
A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.
~ Peter Kreeft
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.
~ Philip Roth
Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!
~ Phyllis Bottome
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
~ Plutarch
I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.
~ Pope Francis
Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
~ Pope John Paul II
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
~ Oliver Goldsmith