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Best Human Quotes by Steven Pinker
- There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual…
- One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at…
- Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone…
- We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for…
- The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as…
- After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away…
- The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of…
- Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance,…
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