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Quotes About Human

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.
~ Austin O'Malley
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.
~ Michael Shermer
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.
~ Joseph Goebbels
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
~ David Bowie
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
~ Thales
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.
~ Douglas McGregor
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
~ Sergei Eisenstein
Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.
~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
~ Saint Augustine
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
~ Erving Goffman
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.
~ Erich Fromm
Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
~ Primo Levi
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
~ Upton Sinclair
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
~ Pliny the Elder
Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy.
~ Carl Menger