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Humans Quotes by Herman Melville
- One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own…
- Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
- I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than…
- To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.
- For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of…
- But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the…
- Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler…
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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