Quotes About Human

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.

Literature, well done, illustrates the reality of human nature.

Man is a social animal; his character is a social product. The purely human qualities not only lose their value when divorced from social relationships, it is these relationships that provide the only medium for their activity. To say that a person is free to express moral qualities in the absence of his fellows is meaningless, since it is only in their presence that the manifestation of them is possible.

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

I have to let her remain here if she wants to. She's wreckage. It's as simple as that. We have these obligations to our human ruins.

So flexible, and yet so stubborn is the human mind. So obedient to impulses the most transient and brief, and yet so unalterably observant of the direction which is given to it! How little did I then foresee the termination of that chain, of which this may be regarded as the first link?

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

"An observer of human nature, sir," said Mr. Pickwick.

Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.

The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.

have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood. France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident,

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur.

British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.. Until their secret is given to another to look after, then perhaps two human creatures may know each other..

Mr. Tracy Tupman—the too susceptible Tupman, who to the wisdom and experience of maturer years superadded the enthusiasm and ardour of a boy in the most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesses—love.

the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human

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In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is -as the light called human life is- at its coming and going.

So entirely had it lost the life and resonance of the human voice, that it affected the senses like a once beautiful colour faded away into a poor weak stain.

I labour under the same kind of astonishment to this day, having invariably observed that of all human weaknesses, the one to which our common nature is the least disposed to confess (I cannot imagine why) is the weakness of having gone to sleep in a coach.