Leopold von Ranke Quotes

Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

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• I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Day
  • Humans
  • Interested

• How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Ruins

• The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Purpose
  • Unique
  • Humans

• Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Life
  • Music
  • Struggle

• Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

  

  Alexandru C. Cuza
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Humans

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Moving
  • Risk
  • Humans

• The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Passion
  • Humans
  • Majority

• There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.

  

  Da'Vine Joy Randolph
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Humans

• I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Understanding
  • Humans
  • Swear

• The only bad thing is that Smallville is shot in Vancouver, and Michael and I live in L.A. So sometimes I feel like a Ping-Pong ball.

  

  Annette O'Toole
  • Men
  • Live
  • Bad

• I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.

  

  Curt Flood
  • Humans
  • Pieces
  • Property

• the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humans
  • Human Beings
  • Snob

• Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Cool
  • Cat
  • Jazz

• There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Humans

• Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • War
  • Future
  • Humans

• I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Looks
  • Humans
  • Mirror

• Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Body

• The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Growing
  • Progress
  • Humans

• To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

  

  Vittorio Alfieri
  • Crime
  • Wicked
  • Virtuous

• The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is.

  

  Keiichi Sigsawa
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Therefore

• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Emotional
  • Forgotten

• I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • God
  • Heart
  • Experience

• Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

  

  Leopold von Ranke
  • Humans
  • Ruins