Quotes About Human

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

After watching operations Churchill drove away with General Ismay, and said, "Don't speak to me.[287] I have never been so moved." It was five minutes before he spoke again, and when he did he had worked out a phrase to express his thoughts: "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

The human ego must face the Dionysian reality, and therefore a great work of self-transformation lies ahead of it. For Nietzsche was right in saying that the Apollonian preserves, the Dionysian destroys, self-consciousness.

Involuted Eros and involuted aggression constitute the "autonomous self" or what passes for individuality in the human species.

U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it is still with us.

Literature's world is a concrete human world of immediate experience. The poet uses images and objects and sensations much more than he uses abstract ideas; the novelist is concerned with telling stories, not with working out arguments.

It's a classic bias in human thinking: most of us never want to imagine the worst. We are optimists by nature. Personally, I find the zeitgeist at Davos every year to be a contrarian indicator of the future. If everyone in the Davos set believes something will happen—good or bad, as it may be—they are highly likely to be wrong.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Allí donde la vida se configura como una perpetua lucha por la obtención de dinero, el hombre acaba, de facto, transformado en un bien más del sistema de la propiedad

Encerrar el amor en un círculo, condenándolo a vivir en una cárcel eterna, no servirá para protegerlo de los cambios y las metamorfosis que caracterizan las cosas humanas

?nsan hayata dönünce önce korkular? ya??yor.

In that atrocious second I understood that desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual idea of hell and its horror.

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can't do with an ugly one? Nothing. It's just a matter of preference.

Human competitiveness and territoriality were often at the root of particularly horrible fashions in oppression.

Naturally, trouble makes for greater drama than does happiness, and it asks more in the way of human response

I suppose that's because we've been displaced again from the center of the universe. We human beings, I mean. Down through history, in myth and even in science, we've kept putting ourselves in the center, and then being evicted.

was both afraid of them and glad of their human presence. Dangerous as they could be to me, somehow, they did not seem as threatening as the dark shadowy woods with its strange sounds, its unknowns.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has 'invented' himself by saying 'no' to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.

I venerate with emotion everything that comes from the heart when it is simple, silent and confident. It is a sensual pleasure, subtle and touching, to try to reach characters through the varied outer appearances of human conditions.

Were it not for frustration and humiliation I suppose the human race would get ideas above its station.