Human Quotes
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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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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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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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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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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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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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 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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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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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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Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
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We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
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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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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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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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The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.
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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'
