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Human Quotes by Joshua Foer
- Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture:…
- Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our…
- How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to…
- Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
- Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography,…
- It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To…
- There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us…
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