Human Quotes

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

Most people aren't cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools

I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.

We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

The essence of being human is being creative.

Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.

I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.

Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.

I'm a human being and every human being has problems.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).

The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.

If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.

To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.

Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.

There will be no more 'them and us', only us, sharing struggles and challenges as part of being human.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.