Humans Quotes
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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
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The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
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Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.
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Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.
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I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.
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These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.
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You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
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The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.
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Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
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Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.
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If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.
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Whatever subjectivity we are going to talk about is going to be in an intersubjectivity of human beings that have a certain nature and have certain needs to be met and have to figure out how exactly to do that.
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Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you?
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The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.
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We humans like to know where we are headed, but creativity demands that we travel paths that lead to who-knows-where.
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High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
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If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.
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We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person.
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If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
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Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and laid in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.
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The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
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Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.
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Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
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I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.
