Quotes About Human

By exploring who Vasari was, how he wrote his book, and what influence it has had on how we perceive art, then we can also explore the significant questions of what art is, why it is so important to the human species, and how we have interacted with it.

There is something so elemental, so primeval about human tears that the sound of them causes ripples and tremors to course up and down the spine and through the bloodstream; and my own tears, that day, had just that effect upon me.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

Apparently some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided only that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.

I'm only Superman, I'm not God.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

every subject under the sun, was seen only in its relation to vested interests. So complete, so whole-hearted was his preoccupation that after an hour's conversation I began to wonder whether I had not been incredibly naïve in believing there was any other governing motive in human life.

For you being human means being human and being a woman and being a worker and being everything, everything. Asking a lot? Each of us is asked only for what he can give. Woe betide us, if he doesn't give it all.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are.

You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning real names.

I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

If we proportion our assent in all things to the degrees of evidence, we do the utmost that human nature is capable of, in a rational way, to secure itself from error.

Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.

Those mitigating circumstances could just as well be mentioned if the thinker thought it worth the trouble. From the standpoint of human relations it is worth vastly more than the trouble it takes. The little sympathy or appreciation, coming first, puts the thinkers in the same camp with the feeling types, and the feeling types' desire to stay in the same camp will keep them agreeing with the thinkers as far as possible.

Unless thinkers carry their respect for cause and effect into the field of human relations, they may not have much awareness of people.