Human Quotes
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God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.
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My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]
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There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.
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When I was in my 20s and 30s, there was such a variety and diversity of types of films that you could see. So many of them were really more about the human condition and about relationships between people, and they were smaller films that had a much greater impact on me as a human being.
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In a sense, human flesh is made of stardust.
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I'm human, just like anybody else.
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Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion.
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I noticed that when I went to see the rushes or the first showing that there was something quite human in this desperation, and I hadn't planned it.
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.
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Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.
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Cats are only human, they have their faults.
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No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.
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Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.
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Writing made it tolerable to be human in a way nothing else ever had. It gave me a place to thrive, to exorcise, to cultivate some understanding of aspects of being human that were otherwise confounding.
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God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.
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Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.
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"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."
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Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.
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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
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Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.
