Quotes About Human

Dado que el ser humano está conectado tanto con el mundo de la materia como con el del espíritu, necesitamos de ambos hemisferios para movernos de una manera fluida.

El dolor es inevitable porque es parte de la condición humana, mientras que el sufrimiento es una creación de la mente dualista.

El amor tiene siempre, inevitablemente, algo de ridículo.

Ya se que hay mujeres que son eso y nada más. Pero hay otras, la mayoría, que no son eso, y otras más, que aunque lo sean, son además otra cosa, un ser humano complicado, egocéntrico, extremadamente sensible

Our mathematics is the symbolic counterpart of the universe we perceive, and its power has been continuously enhanced by human exploration.

Twentieth-century British mathematician G.H. Hardy also believed that the human function is to "discover or observe" mathematics rather than to invent it. In other words, the abstract landscape of mathematics was there, waiting for mathematical explorers to reveal it.

Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

She was not unattractive until she focused her eyes on a human being, when their unblinking coldness gave the effect of the stare of an adder.

There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions.

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

War strips away the thin veneer applied slap-dash by the institutions of society and shows Man for exactly what he is.

I don't pretend to understand where the sovereignty of God and free will of humans meet, but it motivates me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.

Whatsoever we give the supremacy of the inward man to, whatsoever we love most, whatsoever we trust most, whatsoever we fear most, whatsoever we joy and delight most, whatsoever we obey most—that is our god."117 In the end, one's love indicates one's God118—for no human lives without loving.119

Unless we professors change our ways and stop seeking respectability and institutional standing at the expense of genuine human impact, we are destined, as Tennyson has it, to rust unburnished, never to shine in use.

Poetry -- literature in general -- is the major cultural source of vital options for those who find that their lives fall short of their highest hopes. Literature is, I believe, our best goad toward new beginnings, our best chance for what we might call secular rebirth... in literature there abide major hopes for human renovation.

Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.

The resurrection of this once popular work [Ping Jinya's forgotten bestseller of the 1930s, Tides in the Human Sea ] is a reminder that the histories of 'Chinese literature' currently in circulation are far from being histories of what most people actually read.

A core fundamental of human existence is wonder—and its analogue is fear. You can't have one without the other, flip sides of the coin.

we're finding that humans, just like macaques, have neurons that act as mirrors. In fact, studies suggest that these remarkable cells may form the basis for human empathy. That's because, in effect, they transport us into another person's mind, briefly making us feel what the person is feeling.

The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice.

Coleridge saw the active mind as one way in which human beings were made in God's image:

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is the natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is a part of evolution.