Human Quotes
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The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
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We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.
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To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes.
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We know that genes shape human cultures and human societies: The DNA we inherited from our ancestors makes certain foods taste better, affects the way we care for children, influences what colors we find vibrant, and contributes to our love of socializing, among other examples.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.
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Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.
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The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
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Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
