Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and…

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good…

— Orson Scott Card

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from…

— Ivan Klíma

“If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of…

— Jonah Lehrer

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the…

— Northrop Frye

There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of…

— Thomas Berry

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of…

— Thomas Huxley

Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul…

— Parker J. Palmer

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

— Karl Popper

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he…

— Leo Tolstoy

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually…

— Thomas Berry

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…

— Alan Watts

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

— David Hilbert