Human Quotes
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This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.
Soren Kierkegaard -
We are all dually feminine and masculine. To give in to both of those things would strengthen us as human beings and there is such a drastic difference between men, and men who are terrified of their own femininity.
Ruston Kelly
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The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for human use.
Eric Pianka -
Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he or she is making. Improvisation is the only musical art which predicated entirely on human trust and love.
Alvin Curran -
Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and
Michael O'Brien -
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
Herodotus -
It’s called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.
Courtney Milan -
O beautiful human life! Tears come to my eyes as I think of it. So beautiful, so inexpressibly beautiful! The song should never be silent, the dance never still, the laugh should sound like water which runs forever.
Richard Jefferies
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I watched 'Hey Hey' religiously every Saturday night like every other single human that I knew.
Rebecca Breeds -
There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.
Hillary Clinton -
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock -
One of the greatest Roman poets was Ovid, an older contemporary of Jesus (his dates: 43 BCE–17 CE). His most famous work is his fifteen-volume Metamorphoses, which celebrates changes or transformations described in ancient mythology. Sometimes these changes involve gods who take on human form in order to interact, for a time, with mortals.
Bart Ehrman -
The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.Nick
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
The challenge is: How can people gain control over the residues of past trauma and return to being masters of their own ship? Talking, understanding, and human connections help, and drugs can dampen hyperactive alarm systems. But we will also see that the imprints from the past can be transformed by having physical experiences that directly contradict the helplessness, rage, and collapse that are part of trauma, and thereby regaining self-mastery.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I was made fun of by a lot of other kids in such a way that I didn't feel like I was human.
Josh Trank -
Humans aren’t that extraordinary. We’re small. The more humans tell themselves they are giant, the more I feel like I’m losing sight of myself. Humans are only as big as a human can be.”
Natsuhiko Kyogoku -
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.
Henry Ward Beecher -
We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view, it’s our refusal to deal openly and honestly with race that leads us to keep repeating these cycles of exclusion and division, and rebirthing a caste-like system that we claim we’ve left behind
Michelle Alexander -
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.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.
Morris West
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We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
Joanne Rowling -
Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.
Elsie Lincoln Benedict -
I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.
Rene Rivkin -
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Anthony Robbins