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Human Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin
- Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
- The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the…
- The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.
- Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery
- The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into…
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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… — 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