Quotes About Human

Desire is the very essence of man

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

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

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man's cult of beauty.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Man as a pure animal does not exist