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Human Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future…
- The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The…
- To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
- To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
- The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
- Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
- How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human…
- The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
- Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as…
- The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
- A kiss may ruin a human life
- Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
- Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.…
- I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the…
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- 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
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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