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Human Quotes by George Santayana
- In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human…
- The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy…
- Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just,…
- The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
- Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched…
- Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light…
- Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of…
- I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
- One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
- A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of…
- The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the…
- My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be…
- Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul…
- Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell…
- The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy…
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