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Human Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
- Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free…
- It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;…
- One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.
- The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real…
- In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The…
- Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or…
- Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of…
- It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some…
- Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men;…
- Habit is the deepest law of human nature
- What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that…
- We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
- Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one…
- We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another…
- A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
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