Human Quotes
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
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Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
