Quotes About Human

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence. The way one sentence follows another, if we pay attention to syntax and rhythm, should express the final effect we want the narrative to have on a reader.

On a personal level, to think in time is to accept the uncertainty of life as the necessary price of being alive. To rebel against the precariousness of life, to reject uncertainty, to adopt a zero tolerance to risk, to imagine that life can be organized to completely eliminate danger, is to think outside time. To be human is to live suspended between danger and opportunity.

Science is not philosophers sitting in clouds. It is a human activity, as complex and problematic as any other.

If a mouse accidentally wanders into a populated area, we see some of the finest acting that human beings are capable of.

Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.

p.14: La esencia de la llamada economía del conocimiento es enormes flujos de inversión para capital humano lo mismo que para tecnología informática.

Dream for a moment's space of care and strife, Wake, stare, and smile, and that is human Life.

Amazon is as much a complex planning mechanism based in human ingenuity as it is an inhuman place to work. Some 150 years later, we have much the same reaction of awe and terror at the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism as had Marx in the face of its Victorian antecedent.

I guess if you leave the milk of human kindness out in the sun too long, the sour cream of the crop will rise to the top.

No coração do puritanismo estava a crença de que a graça de Deus é a fonte de todo benefício humano e que não se pode adquiri-la por mérito humano.

The human body is about 60% water- more than half of each and every one of us. Being a body of water is something you can say about absolutely anyone. So if you are ever asked what a certain person is like and you cannot think of anything nice to say, you can just reply "they're mostly water.

The Lachrymose Leeches,' Aunt Josephine said, 'are quite different from regular leeches. They each have six rows of very sharp teeth ad one very sharp nose - they can smell even the smallest bit of food from far far away. The Lachrymose Leeches are usually quite harmless, preying only on small fish. But if they smell food on a human they will swarm around him

Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

A tradition is entrusted to human personalities which it reflects. What a man recalls as a word or an experience of the master is, even against his will and without his knowledge, colored by his own personality and character, by the littleness and the greatness in him, by his hopes, his longing, and his faith.

We find we have little to guide us in our search and must put trust in the only power we have, that natural instinct that propels us toward creation, choice, liberation and change. We must yield to the challenge of becoming fully human and trust in our human processes in the hope that they will lead us there. Our challenge then is clear, to make as much of the illusion as possible a reality. After all, our reality is no more than what was once our illusion.

Love is the fart Of every heart; It pains a man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend when 'tis let loose.25

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

We are now brought face to face with a tyranny which holds out the threat of becoming, thanks to "the conquest of nature" and in particular of human nature, what no other tyranny ever became: perpetual and universal.

All human thought, including scientific thought, rests on premises which cannot be validated by human reason and which came from historical epoch to historical epoch.

H]e (Socrates) thus implies that there is a parallelism between the city and the human individual or, more precisely, between the city and the soul of the human individual. This means that the parallelism between the city and the human individual is based upon a certain abstraction from the human body.