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Humans Quotes by Norman Cousins
- I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete.…
- The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.
- The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
- Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate…
- All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.
- To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth…
- The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope
- The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of…
- Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.
- I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life…
- Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and…
- On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of…
- I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that…
- The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get…
- The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
- The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
- The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They…
- Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the…
- A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without…
- War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
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