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Human Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer…
- We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
- He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports…
- So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
- I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under…
- The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
- True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.
- I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own…
- In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
- What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
- Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
- Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
- A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of…
- None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
- It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
- No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
- Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having…
- He who is only a traveler learns things at second-handand by the halves, and is poorauthority. We are most interested when science reports what those…
- In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human…
- A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.…
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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