Human Action Quotes

43 Human Action quotes by 36 unique authors

[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would… — Christopher Hitchens
If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work;… — Albert Einstein
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are… — Jason Stanley
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human.… — Vaclav Havel
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites,… — Paul Feyerabend
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action… — Ludwig von Mises
Human action is purposeful behavior. — Ludwig von Mises
Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize… — James H. Cone
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient. — Horst Kohler
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men… — Ludwig von Mises
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed — Abraham Lincoln
Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation. — Dalai Lama
The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps… — Robert Watson-Watt
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to… — Elihu Root
History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff… — C. V. Wedgwood
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. — Joseph Wood Krutch
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and… — Paul J. Meyer
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human… — Stefan Zweig
Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science… — Julian Baggini
Always, in every human action, there are leaders. — Vicente Fox
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world… — David Graeber
Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far… — John Ruskin
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords… — Thomas Sowell
In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What… — Ludwig von Mises
It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as… — Ludwig von Mises

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