Quotes About Human

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.

It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.