Common Human Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The…
— Edwin Markham
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not…
— William Gibson
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The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common…
— Carl Jung
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Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I am personally thankful that we live together in a large moral house even if we do not drink at the same fountain of faith.…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs…
— Adrienne Rich
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Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
— John Taylor Gatto
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Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the…
— H P Lovecraft
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us... I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it…
— John Taylor Gatto
Who Wrote These Common Human Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Common Human Quotes as follows: