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Humans Quotes by Thornton Wilder
- For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
- People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very…
- A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made…
- We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars…
- [Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
- Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?
- Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?
- Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women.…
- But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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