Quotes About Human

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.

Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant's Whore.

The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.

Moments like modulations come in human relationships: when what has been until then an objective situation, one perhaps described by the mind to itself in semi-literary terms, one it is sufficient merely to classify under some general heading (man with alcoholic problems, woman with unfortunate past, and so on) becomes subjective; becomes unique; becomes, by empathy, instantaneously shared rather than observed.

So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence.

The rebel with no specific gift for rebellion is destined to become the drone; and even this metaphor is inexact, since the drone has at least a small chance of fecundating the queen, whereas the human rebel-drone is deprived even of that small chance and may finally see himself as totally sterile, lacking not only the brilliant life-success of the queens but even the humble satisfactions of the workers in the human hive. Such

He is ugliness. But you can't smash human ugliness.

Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.

History is a treadmill turned by rising human numbers. Today GM crops are being marketed as the only means of avoiding mass starvation. They are unlikely to improve the lives of peasant farmers ; but they may well enable them to survive in greater numbers.

Contemporary culture rejects the idea of nature for the same reason it rejects the idea of God. Both set limits on the human will.

It is a strange sort of naturalism that singles out religion to be purged from human life. Few things are more natural for humans than religion. To be sure, religion has brought much suffering. So has love and the pursuit of knowledge. Like them, religion is part of being human.

Las posibilidades de la civilización humana están enturbiadas por muchas incertidumbres de nuestra propia creación, incluyendo las guerras, el cambio de clima antropogénico, y la degradación del medio ambiente.

The human body was not meant for such abuse. After about six months they lost steam.

I thought you were a lawyer, I said, spreading peanut butter. I'm a human first, then a lawyer. It's possible to be both...

It preyed on human desire and it paid off by sheer terror.

I'm a human first, then a lawyer. It's possible to be both—not quite so much on the spread there. We have to be efficient.

The inner is not a brute reality which can be mapped out by psychologists, but a tangle of concepts relating the inner to the outer which lies at the heart of human understanding.

While the world lasts, will Aristotle's doctrine on these matters last, for he is the oracle of nature and of truth. While we are men, we cannot help, to a great extent, being Aristotelians, for the great Master does but analyze the thoughts, feelings, views, and opinions of human kind.

All human beings face the same fundamental problems of loving and of suffering, of striving toward human aspirations for themselves and their children, of simply being and inevitably dying. These are the basic truths in all people, the common denominators of all cultures and all races and all ethnic categories. In

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

Yet how strong was friendship? Could it banish disagreement over a fundamental issue of human liberty—as if the issue and the disagreement didn't exist?

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer