Human Actions Quotes

37 quotes by 31 authors

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and… — Porphyry
Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions. — Albert Einstein
As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people… — Seth Godin
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of… — Edmund Burke
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions. — Madame de Stael
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice. — John Ruskin
I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids. — Baruch Spinoza
The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is… — Louis Pasteur
If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which this influence is… — Lisa Randall
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely… — David Abram
Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities… — Dalai Lama
Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens… — Kent Nerburn
In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes. — Herman Melville
Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is… — Franz Kafka
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner
I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from… — Baldassare Castiglione
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of… — Terry Eagleton

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