Quotes About Human

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.

Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

If you would be a magician, honor the Earth. Honor life. Love. Know that magic is the birthright of every human being, and wisely use it.

The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.