Human Actions Quotes
37 Human Actions quotes by 31 unique authors
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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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
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Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
— Albert Einstein
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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
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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
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
— Madame de Stael
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... 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
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
— Baruch Spinoza
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.
— Herman Melville
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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
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The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.
— Gerda Lerner
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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
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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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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
— Nhat Hanh
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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
— John Locke
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm…
— Zadie Smith
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
— Baruch Spinoza
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