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Humans Quotes by Terry Eagleton
- An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our…
- What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how…
- There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of…
- Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice;…
- For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
- Nothing in human life is inherently private.
- Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the…
- The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining…
- ... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale.…
More Humans Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — 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
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin