Human Quotes
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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Human beings are curious by nature.
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There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.
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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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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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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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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
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You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
