Quotes About Human

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.

Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

Man is an imitative creature.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

But I have to warn you that this is the word—'politics'—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.

this is the word—'politics'—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.

People were expensive; the way to display, or to enjoy, great wealth was to build an environment that could only have been wrought, and could only be sustained from one hour to the next, by unceasing human effort.

The internal, and eternal, struggle, between our base impulses and the rigorous demands of our own moral system is quintessentially human. It is how we conduct ourselves in that struggle that determines how we may in time be judged by a higher power.

Leibniz's most fundamental assumption, namely that the universe makes sense and that the human has the power to make sense of it and that, consequently, pure metaphysics is no waste of time, remains perhaps the central question of all science.

Most hacker types don't go in for garish avatars, because they know that it takes a lot more sophistication to render a realistic human face than a talking penis.