Quotes About Human

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Madness is part of all of us, all the time, and it comes and goes, waxes and wanes.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

"Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

The best minister is the human heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.

States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Vice is as much a part of human nature as folly, and pornography may be as necessary to vent vice as satire is to vent folly.

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

Language is the armoury of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests.

Language is an inventory of human experience.

Anxiety is the poison of human life, the parent of many sins and of more miseries.... Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.