Nature of man Quotes · Page 142

The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good

— Charles Bukowski

“The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity.”

— Jodi Picoult

Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity.

— Lisa Hunt

“The flawed human error is expecting someone else to build the world we desire, rather than creating it for ourselves.”

— Shawn Stern

“Proximity to calamity released the human capacity for love.”

— Salman Rushdie

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

— E. O. Wilson

“The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

— Shirley Hazzard

“For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is…

— Carl Sagan

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Teilhard de Chardin - French…

— Angela Jeffs

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation…

— Vinessa Shaw

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man.…

— Cormac McCarthy

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of…

— Bertrand Russell

“What makes humans valuable in the first place? Science can't answer that question because science deals only with things we can measure…

— Scott Klusendorf

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

— John Welwood

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our…

— Rachel Carson

“It is no exaggeration to say that fatherlessness is the most harmful demographic trend of this generation. It is the engine driving…

— Craig Wilkinson

Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers…

— Paul Di Filippo

It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is…

— Manu Joseph

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The human race is one of the few creatures whom can cry tears. If you look at us we are running around…

— Adrian Sandvaer

“It is true that humanity is faced with many problems. It always has been but perhaps not always with such keen awareness…

— Herbert A. Simon

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

— Georg Simmel

Where the rules are not respected. Keep the hopes of humanity are meaningless

— Mak_786

Human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

— Ethel Percy Andrus

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

— James S.A. Corey

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

— Karin Tidbeck

It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.

— Theo Epstein

As humans we need to bond and we need ritual - and that's what catchphrases represent.

— Maureen Lipman

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

— Lillian B. Rubin

Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.

— Clara Lucas Balfour

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

— Rhiannon Giddens

The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.

— Marina Abramovic

“We are all just humans trying to survive in this crazy world, in the spaces between birth and death.”

— Melody Lee

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

— Graham Greene

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

— Emmylou Harris

“The way we assess time as humans determines what we become”

— Sunday Adelaja

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

— Barbara Brown Taylor