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Quotes About Human

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
~ Cleveland Amory
A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.
~ Clifford Geertz
You make me feel too human, Joe. All I want is peace and quiet, not love. I'm a tired old lady, Joe, and I don't mind being what you call "half dead." In fact it's what I like. The twice I was in love I took an awful beating and I don't want it again! I want you to stop it Don't devil me, Joe. I beg you, don't devil me...
~ Clifford Odets
Gossip is the human condition. It's like water. It finds its way through every crack and gap. It can't be contained.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Obstinacy is dangerous and destructive when human actions are derailed for good cause.
~ Unknown
Every vial of blood is no measure for every sacrifice that you make if the sacrifices are not instilled for freedom and human dignity.
~ Unknown
The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.
~ Cofer Black
The more sensitive the lunatic, the less able is he to resist this prying interest of the normal human being. I felt that Renée's change of key - to myself, I compared Renée to a sweet melody, a little flat despite its laborious harmonies - was approaching.
~ Colette
The human experience is meant to be an emotional one, so the extent to which we deny our feelings is the extent to which we deny our purpose for being here.
~ Unknown
DaÅ' ci Bóg nikczemnÄ… posta?, jeÅ›li siÄ™ ludzie nie bÄ™dÄ… ciebie bali, to siÄ™ bÄ™dÄ… z ciebie Å›mieli.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Sometimes I have thought that human misery goes far beyond human imagination,—imagination has its limits, and misery, like the vast seas, appears to be without end.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
~ Heraclitus
The sun is the width of a human foot.
~ Heraclitus
The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.
~ Heraclitus
Though our vocabularies were different, we both view the human mind as a symbol-manipulating (my term) or information processing (Al Newell) system.
~ Herbert A. Simon
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
~ Herbert Hoover
Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.
~ Herbert M. Shelton
[On an architectural design by Santiago Calatrava:] A city is never more fully human than when expertise—our own or someone else's—allows us access to ebullience, lightness and delight.
~ Unknown
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
~ Herbert Read
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
~ Herbert Spencer
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.
~ Herbert Spencer
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
~ Herbie Hancock
173Augustine speaks of a Christianity which has existed since the beginning of the human race,
~ Herman Bavinck
Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.
~ Herman Bavinck