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Humans Quotes by Philip Pullman
- The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual…
- I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old,…
- As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy…
- People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates…
- All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
- Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and…
- Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.
- The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other.…
- Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.
- For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.
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