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Human Quotes by Italo Calvino
- The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
- I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there…
- A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part…
- The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a…
- The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse…
- I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is…
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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
- 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