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Best Human Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what…
- To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
- A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.
- He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in…
- The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes…
- Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes…
- I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
- Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
- Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
- The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
- No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the…
- The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that…
- Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not know what is…
- I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but…
- Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on…
- To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited…
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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