Quotes About Human

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young. Sometimes very young children look at the old, and a look passes between them, conspiratorial, sly and knowing. It's because neither are human to the middling ones, those in their prime, as they say, like beef.

It continues to startle me, the range of political ideologies that are compatible with enthusiasm for spaceflight. Tax-and-spend liberals of the Great Society stripe, obviously—but also spending-slashing Tea Partiers, hippie peaceniks, fierce libertarians, military loyalists, and apathetics of every shade. So very many of us seem to feel that a love of human spaceflight is reconcilable with our beliefs, and we can all explain why.

One measure of how deeply these myths express elemental human concerns is the extent to which they are both timeless and universal. Mythologists and anthropologists see the same themes, situations, and stories played out again and again, across the ages and around the globe. Perhaps

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

Doctrine of Signatures. It held that the medicinal qualities in plants were made visible as "signatures of Natures owne impression," and writers quite commonly express the wish that human beings bore similar imprints so that one could tell a person's worth by some sign on his person.

The human psyche is pathetic," I say—I declaim—to my psychopharmacologist. "It's what we have, Miss Jefferson," he replies, "it's what we have.

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

What makes this inner void so difficult to deal with is that it's amorphous. We can't fix it because we can't pinpoint its precise cause. And even if we could, we wouldn't be able to banish it. It's the price we pay for being human.

Lacan is concerned with lack as the ontological underpinning of human existence.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

The system of prizes may turn an individual aside from this vocation, may make him choose a false road, for him a vain one, and forced to follow it, the natural activity of a human being may be warped, lessened, even annihilated.

Sergi says truly: "To-day an urgent need imposes itself upon society: the reconstruction of methods in education and instruction, and he who fights for this cause, fights for human regeneration.

No ocean as deep and wide as the human soul.

Bedizened or starknaked, man, the self, the being we call human,writingmaster to this world.

Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm unsullied by human struggle, it will always be entangled with the world we live in.

Give me dragons any day; I understand their ways far better than those of my fellow human beings. We make our world much too complicated

Bedeviled, human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

What was archaeology to him? It was the opposite of killing things. It was trying to will life back into stuff that had been forgotten and buried for thousands or millions of years. It was not about shards and pieces of bone or treasure; it was about kneeling down in the elements, paying very close attention, and trying to locate a spark of the human life that had once touched that spot there.

The irony of the human condition is that it is the narrow gate to life. Few find it because they are too fearful to look

The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.

Just a child. All this time we've feared you, sought you. And you're nothing more than a human child.

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long human nature is incapable of supporting it.