Human Quotes

You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.

Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experien...

There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something t...

Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.”...

No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can ac...

A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are health...

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is h...

Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testo...

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n...

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they ...

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should e...

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think th...

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent...

Human history is a Gaian dream.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...

From a historical point of view, restricting the availability of addictive substances must be seen a...

...Human beings, little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium.....

Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.

I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind wi...

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered ...

Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude:...

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the incr...

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other t...

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting ...

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this ...

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for th...

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding...

A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days - but as someon...

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizz...

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect o...

The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no ...

Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust, he thought, pacing his room as the soundless, vag...

The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or m...

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of ...

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides...

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a...

I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which...

On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influen...

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amaz...

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offend...

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, a...

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine...

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressur...

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarante...

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of ...

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not...

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out hu...

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sus...

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade....

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone ...

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human b...

Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of th...

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "l...

I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He...

IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WE...

Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experie...

Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to car...

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was s...

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was hu...

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of hum...

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of othe...

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation ...

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection ...

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human tempe...

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brande...

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly ...

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings...

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever gi...

In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and ch...

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hithe...

To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve o...