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Human Quotes by May Sarton
- We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or…
- Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make…
- One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must…
- If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy,…
- I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and…
- One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
- One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a…
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