Human Quotes
-
One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
-
Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.
-
We are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.
-
An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.
-
There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.
-
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.
-
People ask me how it happens that my children are all so promptly obedient and so happy. As if it chanced that some parents have such children or chanced that some have not! I am afraid it is only too true, as someone has remarked, that "this is the age of obedient parents!" What then will be the future of their children? How can they yield to God who have never been taught to yield to human authority? And how well fitted will they be to rule their own households who have never learned to rule themselves?
-
If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the “dirty work” of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.
-
There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
-
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.
-
You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.
-
I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.
-
Technology is teaching us to be human again.
-
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
-
The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.
-
We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.
-
Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.
-
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
-
Merely being human is morally significant.
-
We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'
-
By humanizing technology, we have this golden opportunity to reimagine how we connect with machines, and therefore, how we, as human beings, connect with one another.
-
The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.
-
Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's really crazy.
-
I'm a great lover of human beings.
