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Humans Quotes by Anatole France
- It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human…
- Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced…
- It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
- Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
- For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils,…
- Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
- Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong