Humans Quotes
20546 Humans quotes by 7441 unique authors
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Corporations are people, my friend ... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose…
— Mitt Romney
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way…
— Richard Dawkins
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It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything…
— A.C. Grayling
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is…
— C.S. Lewis
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They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious,…
— Al-MaÊ¿arri
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Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity,…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.
— Rick Warren
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything…
— Pema Chodron
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art…
— Thomas Huxley
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The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population,…
— Thomas Malthus
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Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.
— Robert Genn
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes...…
— Michelangelo
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Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
— George Nelson
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Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have…
— Jean Baker Miller
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...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of nature. This balance,…
— George F. Kennan
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Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have…
— Dalai Lama
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War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion…
— Queen Noor of Jordan
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not…
— Margaret Fuller
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The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.
— Carl Sagan
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It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of…
— Harold S. Kushner
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