Human Quotes
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
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The typical analytic complaint about continental philosophy is that it is unrigorous, muddleheaded, subjectivist, inattentive to science, and written in impenetrable prose. The typical continental complaint about analytic philosophy is that it is superficial, reductionistic, anal retentive, inattentive to human concerns, and boring.
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The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.
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We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that. But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means.
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When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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"We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands"
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Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.
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You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.
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As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.
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We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.
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I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.
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For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.
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There are many great minds on earth and not all are human.
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My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
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Everyone can have a bad period in their life, but we are famous; we have a lot of things. Sometimes people think we are not human, with no feelings, with no problems.
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I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.
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I'm a human, too. I'm not an angel. I'm a devil.
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Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.
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A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple. And we'd better do something about it. For our sakes, too. That is, if we want to continue to call ourselves human.
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I also loved that there in Into the Forest was a beautiful balance to it, where they were strong and survivors and doing things in the film that we normally only see men do, but they were still human and vulnerable, and they still broke and had moments of weakness. That's something that we don't often get to see in these films, either.
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Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.
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The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?
