Human Quotes
What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.
The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities.
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.
There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though." "What help?" Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.
What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.
Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.
We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.
Human beings are special. We're creatures (we're not little gods), but we're also more than creatures. In fact, we're the most wonderful creatures in the world next to God.
Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.
It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.
One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.
I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world.
The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.
The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.
What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.
There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.
Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.
I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.
There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.
Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.
All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.
One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.
The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and so on.
The most important part about playing shows and touring, is connecting with fans. At the end of the day it's not really a band and fans, we're all just human beings.
Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.
New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
Human beings make mistakes, so we all make mistakes and wrong decisions. Being able to make a decision and act upon it is not gender specific.
A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.
...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.