Humans Quotes · Page 413

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of…

— D. H. Lawrence

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

— Isak Dinesen

So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.

— Ron Paul

I think psychology would be an easy transition and figuring out the human mind somehow.

— Wilmer Valderrama

Tremendous human energy is needed to walk God's walk, work God's work, fulfill God's will, and complete his dream for our self-esteem.

— Robert H. Schuller

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

— Henri Matisse

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

— Sri Aurobindo

“Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.”

— Amit Kalantri

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender…

— Nathaniel Branden

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in…

— Aldous Huxley

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories,…

— David Lynch

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced…

— Peter Singer

More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,…

— Ordway Tead

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with…

— Susan Sontag

Ego is an immature stage of development for humans, and that's what it will be recognized as when the consciousness changes on…

— Eckhart Tolle

If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be…

— Peter Singer

Wolves don’t socialize with humans. You guys tend to freak out when you learn what we are. Not to mention, your females…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the…

— Anais Nin

I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach…

— Catherynne M. Valente

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and…

— James Agee

In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love…

— John Calvin

A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…

— Henri Nouwen

As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they…

— Anonymous

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

— Ayn Rand

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

— Robert Breault

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

— Thomas Sowell

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

— Abraham Lincoln

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

— Northrop Frye

Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.

— Steve Mirsky

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

— Patrick O'Brian

I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped…

— Charles Spurgeon

The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.

— Juan Enriquez

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

— Hippocrates

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

— Evan Dando

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

— Raymond E. Feist

You stand exactly in the middle, poised between heaven and earth, a human conductor for the energy that seeks to flow between…

— Margot Anand

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

— Vladimir Putin