Human Quotes
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The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
Celia Green -
Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.
Marge Piercy
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Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.
Celia Green -
There is no such thing as an immortal work of art. There is one art - the greatest of all, the art of making a complete human being of oneself.
Alfred Richard Orage -
The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.
Abraham Lincoln -
Positivity psychology is part and parcel of psychology. Being human includes both ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. Positive psychology devotes somewhat more attention to the ups and the opportunities, whereas traditional psychology - at least historically - has paid more attention to the downs.
Barbara Fredrickson -
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise Pascal -
I am alive. I am human. I am loved.
Barbara O'Neal
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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
Galen -
I'm sure it has to be a species distinct from us. There is speculation that it could be a diseased human, but this is nothing like that.
Andrew Hill -
I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
Rumi -
I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge.
Heidi Hammel -
Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum -
We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.
Marianne Williamson
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I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose than putting value on human life.
Virginia Williams -
The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.
Brian Swimme -
Evolutionary biologists often avoid using the term "race" because there is so much racist baggage that comes with the term. However, they are often okay with the idea that the genealogy of human groups within our species can sometimes be inferred in much the same way as the genealogy of different species.
Elliott Sober -
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.
Nicholas Meyer -
The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.
Flannery O'Connor -
Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.
William Thurston
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To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and to build a world community which will stand as a lasting monument to the millions of men and women, to such devoted and distinguished world citizens and fighters for peace as the late Dag Hammarskjöld, who have given their lives that we may live in happiness and peace.
Albert Lutuli -
If the two meanings of 'heart' are 'center' and 'part,' then the word 'art' also forms a perplexing doubleness: it is something human-made with materials; that is, it is made of us. Art is life. And yet it is distinct from 'life.' Art is life's counterpoint. We make it, and in that making, art is pointedly not life. It is just made of us.
Brenda Shaughnessy -
Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
Ernest Cline -
... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our eyes in order to blind us to our fate. The body walks and goes on walking.
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry