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Humans Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be…
- The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no…
- All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage…
- Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is…
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among…
- Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
- Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him,…
- Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths…
- That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your…
- The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
- Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming…
- It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust…
- My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.
- For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall…
- Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of…
- To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was…
- It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical…
- Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
- So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,…
- They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were…
- If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon…
- It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was…
- We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.
- It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.
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- 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