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Human Quotes by Anne Carson
- All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
- Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
- We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every…
- Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch.…
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein