Quotes About Human

It was miserable work, with little reward, and I learned much about the limitations of human kindness, and in particular my own.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Do they function as collections of Human Resources or as communities of human beings?

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

I lie on my side I wonder how much pain and horror can be contained In one human mind I turn on the light All I can think about is going somewhere

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Hamlet is the human soul as it was, as it is, and as it will be. In conceiving this drama, Shakspeare overstepped the limit fixed even for genius. I can understand Homer and Dante, studied by the light of their epoch. I can comprehend that they could do what they did; but how an Englishman of the seventeenth century could foreknow psychosis, a science of recent growth, will be to me, in spite of my study of Hamlet, an everlasting mystery. Having

The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate in the soul of man. And the human intellect, with no inkling of the immense variety and complexity of circumstances conditioning a phenomenon, any one of which may be separately conceived of as the cause of it, snatches at the first and most easily understood approximation, and says here is the cause.

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

To sin is a human business, but to justify sins is a devilish business.

there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.

War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life.

When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.

And yet our existence is so organized that every personal enjoyment is purchased at the price of human suffering contrary to human nature.

There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human swarm, in which he must inevitably obey the laws laid down for him.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

mentioning 'our days' as people of limited intelligence are fond of doing, imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of 'our days' and that human characteristics change with the times...

He used to say that there were only two sources of human vice: idleness and superstition; and that there were only two virtues: activity and intelligence.

The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension. All that is accessible to man is the relation of the life of the bee to other manifestations of life. And so it is with the purpose of historic characters and nations.

With painful dejection he awaited the end of this action, in which he regarded himself as a participant and which he was unable to arrest. A personal, human feeling for a brief moment got the better of the artificial phantasm of life he had served so long. He felt in his own person the sufferings and death he had witnessed on the battlefield. The heaviness of his head and chest reminded him of the possibility of suffering and death for himself.

And even now I experience that blessed feeling. To love one's neighbors, to love one's enemies. Always to love--to love God in all His Manifestations. To love one's friends is human love, but to love one's enemies is divine.

she lives for God imagining that she lives for men..One good deed - a cup of water given without the thought of reward - is worth more than any benefit I imagined I was bestowing on people. ..My share of sincere desire to serve God was there, but it was all soiled and overgrown by desire for human praise..