Human Quotes
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The primary human need, he decided—stronger than the need for food or sex or love—is the need for recognition, the need to make a mark in the world.
Brian Morton -
For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
Emmet Gowin
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What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
Brennan Manning -
I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.
Missy Peregrym -
The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day
Scott Adams -
You cannot stop the human mind from working.
Joseph Murray -
This is telling us about those changes that make us human.
Eric Lander -
We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.
Eugene Kennedy
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All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.
Joshua Cohen -
Human life is too difficult for people.
Paul Engle -
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
Cesare Pavese -
Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them.
Gerald Carson -
Your thoughts of God are too human.
Martin Luther -
To be human is to be lost in the woods.
Elizabeth Lesser
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We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.
Harry Stack Sullivan -
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
Morris West -
If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.
Eugene V. Debs -
One of the ultimate things a human can learn is kindness for their fellow humans.
Evan Tanner -
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
Thomas Carlyle -
I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
Stephen Mangan
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If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
Benjamin Carson -
I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form.
Judith Butler -
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
Anthony Trollope -
I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.
Huston Smith