Human Quotes
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
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To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.
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My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
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You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
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It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
