Humans Quotes · Page 565

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they…

— Margaret Atwood

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something.…

— Marge Piercy

Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises…

— Hans Christian Andersen

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care…

— April Gornik

The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy,…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the…

— Immanuel Kant

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong.…

— Anonymous

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went…

— Edgar Mitchell

...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the…

— Morris Berman

These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore…

— Thorstein Veblen

If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all…

— Chico Xavier

In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual…Physically and…

— Aldous Huxley

The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or…

— Hanan al-Shaykh

God is bigger than any problem. God in you is greater than any difficulty you have to meet. God cares for you…

— Emmet Fox

Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on…

— Sam Harris

My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a…

— Greg Iles

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical…

— Ralph Merkle

That don't look good," Kramisha said. "Not good at all." She paused and then her eyes went from me to Heath, whose…

— Anonymous

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who…

— Jonathan Frakes

What do I mean by sin? Answer: Any human condition or act that robs God of glory by stripping one of His…

— Robert H. Schuller

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost…

— John Seely Brown

Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest…

— Peter Senge

For those interested in learning more about corporations and private individuals profiting from the caging of human beings, I highly recommend the…

— Michelle Alexander

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and…

— Anonymous

If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people…

— Emily Gould

I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics…

— Yehuda Amichai

a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a…

— Yukio Mishima

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished…

— James Payn

I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the…

— Jim Gaffigan

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards…

— Gregory Colbert

Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night…

— Freya Stark

[Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights…

— Kofi Annan

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has…

— Samuel Gompers

Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more…

— Aleister Crowley

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been…

— Brooks Atkinson

At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction…

— Cornelius Plantinga

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the…

— Khalil Gibran