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Humans Quotes by Victor Hugo
- For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
- There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,…
- We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
- To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do…
- I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to…
- A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
- Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men…
- Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
- Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with…
- The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of…
- Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the…
- Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the…
- In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic scarcely seen…
- Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate…
- O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being…
- Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners…
- To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation…
- Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
- It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
- Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast…
- The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by…
- The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
- Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
- The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it…
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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