Quotes About Human

Wherever there's a happy vacuum caused by an absence of misery, human beings rush in to fill it.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

Als Mensch vermagst du ein Wesen zu lieben; die Seele jedoch, als Licht Gottes, vermag nicht nur die ganze Welt, sondern tausend Welten zu lieben; denn das menschliche Herz ist weiter als das ganze Weltall.

Weil das menschliche Wesen alles, was im Himmel und auf Erden ist, in sich trägt, wird der Mensch als ein Universum in sich selbst bezeichnet. Gott sagt in Bezug auf den Menschen im Koran: "Wir haben ihn zu unserem Kalifen gemacht." (Koran 2:30) Mit Kalif ist gemeint, dass der Mensch ein Repräsentant Gottes, ein Anführer ist, unter dessen Obhut das Universum gestellt ist; denn das menschliche Wesen ist selbst ein Universum. (S. 124)

I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race.

the human niche is niche switching. More specifically, we argue that the human niche is to move between the paired, inverse modes of culture and consciousness.

Through parallel processing of multiple human minds, our consciousness can become collective, and we can solve problems that neither we could solve as individuals nor our ancestors could have even imagined.

We have arrived in the 21st century with evolutionary baggage, and a fair bit of intellectual confusion. Let us inderstand the baggage, in order to reduce the confusion, and increase our odds of moving forward with maximal human flourishing.

love is our finest human emotion," he said. "And losing it is the true depths of hell.

She hated having a heart. It was just an organ, she knew. An organ of the human body. Hearts didn't have really break. Emotion lay in the soul.

I'd open the door in the morning and the slightly sweet smell of second hand books would greet me. For years I wondered just what that smell was. In the end I decided it was the smell of human thought embedded in paper.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

We justify our mistakes, by saying I'm just a human. But we can be more, be a better version of ourselves, if only we have the conviction to try.

Everybody has mean little places inside himself.

hay tres aspectos elementales en la estrategia humana y que son comunes a lo largo del tiempo y el espacio. Esos tres aspectos son el engaño, las alianzas y el uso instrumental de la violencia.

This is the great dream of which each individual dream is a personal manifestation. Dream is ontogenetic. Myth is phylogenetic. "Dreams and especially myths are a primary medium for intuitive insights into the ultimate nature of human existence . . . [they] are not restricted to ... sleep. They pertain rather to the symbolic dimension of human experience as a whole."24

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women's capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

the power of human creativity can solve even the biggest challenges—and that the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

But neither life, nor human history, turn out to support such a notion.

On many occasions animals are not so much trying to hurt us as giving us a mere rebuke or warning. The trouble is, a mere rebuke or warning from a bear can put a human in traction.

Don't do that!" said Welch, and Kirwan responded very tiredly, "It doesn't matter." Near the spring, rangers found two large pieces of skin shaped like human hands.