Quotes About Human

But it is quite understandable that even the best of people are accessible to the idea of a state because, as I said, a state functions as something very real. You see, when the state claims to be like God's finger creating order out of chaos, it is true to a certain extend; it is monstrous, not human, but a people in its wholeness is not human. It is a big animal, and therefore it needs another monster to tame it.

A psycho-neurosis must be understood as the suffering of a human being who has not yet discovered what life means for him

The conviction grows in me that we shall discover laws of personality and behavior which are as significant for human progress or human understanding as the law of gravity or the laws of thermodynamics.

The prepolitical is no more. There is nothing in this world where human beings can relate to each other that is not a potential arena of political conflict, because all areas of life connect to the overall economic structure of society and thus to society's inequalities and injustices; and Marx should be given much of the credit for laying the theoretical foundations of that.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

All genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil, i.e., by no means an unproblematic but a dangerous and dynamic being.

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

God's love is unspeakable, implacable, its gaze matter-of-fact. But human love is something else: We love in excess of God's love if we love at all. We love by heaping meaning on objective fact. If I believed in God, I might imagine this is what He created humans for, to give things more tenderness than He granted them, amid nature's unblinking harshness and the cruelty of fate...

The Second law of human stupidity: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person

Most people do not act consistently. Under certain circumstances a given person acts intelligently and under different circumstances the same person will act helplessly. The only important exception to the rule is represented by the stupid people, who normally show a strong proclivity toward perfect consistency in all fields of human endeavors.

La confusione fra queste due diverse attività umane, inventare racconti e seguire tracce per trovare qualcosa, è l'origine dell'incomprensione e della diffidenza per la scienza di una parte della cultura contemporanea.

The expanded present is the set of events that are neither past nor future: it exists, just as there are human beings who are neither our descendants nor our forebears.

Science is the human adventure of accepting uncertainty, exploring ways of thinking about the world, and being ready to overturn any and all certainties we have possessed to this point. This is among the most beautiful of human adventures.

civilized disdain has turned out to be surprisingly productive in creating human bonds of lasting value. The mental discipline required for civilized disdain may be crucial for the type of world citizenship that will allow fruitful cooperation across ideological divides.

One of my most deeply held assumptions about human life is that without freedom of thought humans cannot fully evolve.

Existential psychology has shown the depth of the human need to matter, make a difference, and feel a significant purpose in this world. We all need to feel that we do something that matters within the frame of reference that defines our experiential world. The question is, what is this frame of reference?

In Mastery author Robert Greene argues that we all have the ability to push the limits of human potential.

Even though medicine is all about facts and data, the driving force of what engages people (employees, investors, customers) is the human story behind what we're doing. Again and again we have found that crafting it into human terms is the most effective way to engage those three groups.

Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.

If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much.

No one really knows human nature, men as well as women, who has not lived in the bondage of marriage, that is to say, the enforced study of a fellow creature.

But, for better or worse, the human mind is more complex than the brain of a rat or a puppy. A dog may appear contrite for having been caught peeing on the carpet, but she will not try to think up justifications for her misbehavior. Humans think—and because we think, dissonance theory demonstrates, our behavior transcends the effects of rewards and punishments and often contradicts them.

Everyone has expectations. They are the soul of the human condition, for they reflect the human ability to anticipate the future, to dream, and to hope. The complementary human ability is to bring those expectations into resolution with reality, what folks used to call maturity.

The power of the human mind is a wondrous thing. Even now, we can only begin to imagine what it is capable of.