Human World Quotes
51 quotes by 46 authors
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The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is…
— Paul Kurtz
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This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.
— Adolf Hitler
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The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at a time of…
— Derek Tangye
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The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as…
— Ted Nelson
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All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.
— Brian Swimme
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful…
— Harry Allen Overstreet
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This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we have…
— Robert Jensen
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Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission…
— Chinua Achebe
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Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere.…
— Richard Heinberg
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She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual…
— Jerzy Kosinski
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One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is…
— Roland Barthes
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We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle,…
— Rebecca Lim
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I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of…
— James Agee
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I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
— Jonathan Lethem
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You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with…
— Frederick Lenz
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
— Vernor Vinge
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The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in…
— Vaclav Havel
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Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and…
— Carl Jung
Who Wrote These Human World Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 51 Human World Quotes, led by these top contributors: