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Humans Quotes by Jose Saramago
- A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
- I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty,…
- Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
- What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
- We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has…
- Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying…
- The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality,…
- ...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which…
- I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the…
- ...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that…
- If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
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