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Human Quotes by Chaim Potok
- But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel…
- It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way…
- I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to…
- We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what…
- Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent,…
- And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience…
More Human Quotes
- 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… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- 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… — 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… — Billie Joe Armstrong