Quotes About Human

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.