Humans Quotes
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Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives.
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It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss.
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Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.
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Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you have the right to treat her exactly as you please because she didn’t adhere to your archaic views of feminine propriety is misogyny, plain and simple.
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I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.
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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
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Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.
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Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.
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What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.
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We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
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I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.
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Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?
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All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
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Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.
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Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
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Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans.
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I think if humans are really going to explore the solar system, or go beyond our immediate neighborhood, we are going to have to go with nuclear power. Nuclear power really is the development of the steam ship compared to sailing ships.
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The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.
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Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.
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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
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Everybody has got 5.5 liters of blood. I am just a human being. For me everybody are same.
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We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.
