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Humans Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
- The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or…
- If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former…
- The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all…
- Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make…
- All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to…
- Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
- All human power is a compound of time and patience.
- Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
- The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
- What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,…
- However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and…
- If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
- Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or…
- A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
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