Human Quotes

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. — Hannah Arendt
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means… — Hannah Arendt
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history… — Hannah Arendt
When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great… — Paul Auster
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of… — Karen Armstrong
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester. — Karen Armstrong
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger… — Karen Armstrong
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. — Neil Armstrong
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his… — Neil Armstrong
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being,… — Andrea Arnold
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate… — Antonin Artaud
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov

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