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Humans Quotes by Henry Adams
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
- Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
- It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
- The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the…
- I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women…
- I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his…
- Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is…
- No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a…
- Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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