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Human Quotes by Nathaniel Branden
- Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender to the other…
- In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to…
- If you are an adult, you are responsible for your life and well-being. No one owes you the fulfillment of your needs or wants; no…
- Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge…
- The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government,…
- The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my…
- A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source…
- Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their…
- The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary…
- When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to…
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