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Humans Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
- The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk…
- Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.
- Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever…
- The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.
- Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.
- In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and…
- There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen…
- Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?
- What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is…
- If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they…
- No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity…
- That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people…
- It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within,…
- Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people.…
More Humans Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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