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Humans Quotes by Saul Bellow
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we…
- The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human…
- The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
- An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes…
- Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from…
- Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It…
- For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no…
- In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about…
- All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy?…
- How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
- In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main…
- The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you…
- A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
- What do women really want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
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