Human Quotes

22022 quotes by 8110 authors

Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings.… — Irene Nemirovsky
I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge… — Andrew McMahon
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot… — Mark the Evangelist
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront… — Ajahn Brahm
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one… — Octavio Paz
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand… — Rebecca Goldstein
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced… — Jean Meslier
The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice — Unknown Author
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are… — Richard Courant
Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous. — Frederic Goudy
Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on is… — Philip Kapleau
Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine… — Hugo Grotius
Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other. — Hermann Bondi
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame. — Unknown Author
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit! — Unknown Author
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. — Samuel Johnson
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. — Abraham Maslow
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. — Thomas Carlyle
The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is… — Oswald Chambers
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider… — John C. Wright

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