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Human Quotes by John Updike
- Human was the music, natural was the static.
- Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture,…
- Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.
- I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners…
- To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for…
- Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
- Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other…
- To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you…
- Writing makes you more human.
- I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of…
- Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by…
- My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays…
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