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Human Quotes by Paulo Freire
- Only through communication can human life hold meaning.
- Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To…
- What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?
- Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor…
- The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.
- If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve…
- The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay…
- This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.
- Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even…
- True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life,"…
- Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with…
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