Human Quotes
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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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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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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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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.
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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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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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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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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.
