Human Quotes
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At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
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A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
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Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing that man will civilise.
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Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?
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I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
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I think there is definitely a message behind Cyborg that is needed for people to hear and what he represents and the resilience of the human spirit. I hope it means as much to people watching it as it meant to me to do it.
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I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.
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Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.
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Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.
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All things human change.
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And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.
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Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
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The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly sabbath.
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One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
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The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.
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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.
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What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.
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Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.
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Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.
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It’s called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.
