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Human Quotes by Primo Levi
- They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would…
- Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will…
- Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to…
- Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness…
- Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and…
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — 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
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein