Humans Quotes
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If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.
Thomas Sowell -
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
William Howard Taft
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
Willa Cather -
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
Mikhail Bakunin -
How wonderful it would be if we humans with illnesses could simply go dormant while the scientific world went about its snail-paced research, and wake only when new, safe medical treatments were available.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey -
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.
William Gilbert -
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
William James -
The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.
Edith Schaeffer
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
John Gardner -
I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.
William Herschel -
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
Will Self -
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
Chinmayananda Saraswati -
The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.
Elliot W. Eisner -
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.
Shiloh Fernandez
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So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology. But when it comes to the Middle East, and especially the Arab world, simply depicting people as human beings is the most political thing you can do.
Annia Ciezadlo -
When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.
Seth Lloyd -
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
Chris Stringer -
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
C. S. Lewis -
Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.
Mike Mills -
It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.
William P. Young
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
Wole Soyinka -
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
Aldrich Ames -
I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
Simon Callow -
I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those things exist, but if you don't have anyone speaking anymore, those things are still there. The things that language stands for do not require humans, and in fact are often trampled down by humans.
Blake Butler