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Human Quotes by E. M. Forster
- The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of the life we…
- Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always…
- Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity…
- If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a…
- Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into…
- Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down.…
- Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as…
- The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal'…
- The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
- The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
- England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
- Nature pulls one way and human nature another.
- Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no…
- The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The…
- She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was…
- She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human…
- Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
- Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.
- It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may decide…
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- 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