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Quotes About Human

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.
~ Brian Swimme
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.
~ Philip Schaff
You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
~ Thom Mayne
In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.
~ Laura Poitras
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
~ Lewis Thomas
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
~ Sam Francis
Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
~ Thomas Keating
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.
~ J. Paul Getty
What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from
~ David Brin
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.
~ Isaac Barrow
We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.
~ Gene Luen Yang
The song 'Stick'? That needed to be chunky and sexy. It's human. It's human to be the girl in 'Stick' and feel spicy as heck.
~ Banks
In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.
~ Will Patton
Once you see the problems that algorithms can introduce, people can be quick to want to throw them away altogether and think the situation would be resolved by sticking to human decisions until the algorithms are better.
~ Hannah Fry
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
~ Herbie Hancock
I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
The court of public opinion should not matter, but we're all human. And sometimes things sting. But I think you have to be willing to shake it off, and to not fall in love with the applause either.
~ Erika Jayne
When people say they aren't nervous, I think they are lying about it. If you are human and you love the game, before any competition you still get those same butterflies in the stomach.
~ Marcus Mariota
In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.
~ Jonathan Nolan