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106 Human Affairs quotes by 89 unique authors

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and… — Kabir
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is… — John Stuart Mill
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs. — Sidney Hook
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor… — Arthur Helps
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is… — Henry Ward Beecher
Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of… — Thomas Szasz
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study… — Matthew Arnold
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. — Desiderius Erasmus
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. — Alphonse de Lamartine
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty… — Richard P. Feynman
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people… — Neil Gaiman
The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day,… — Milan Kundera
Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --… — Hannah Arendt
There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs. — William Boyd
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War… — Howard Zinn
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as… — Dallas Willard
Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is… — Ambrose Bierce
The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social… — George Roche III
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity. — Anatole France
Stupid is a great force in human affairs. — P.J. O'Rourke
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions… — Richard Jefferies
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

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