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Human Quotes by René Dubos
- Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
- The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots…
- Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population…
- It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
- Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.
- The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has…
- In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the…
- Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable.
- Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts…
- As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual…
- Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny…
- Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the…
- As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges,…
- Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
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- 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