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Humans Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
- I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,…
- The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may…
- It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage
- I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient…
- Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt,…
- He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with…
- As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers…
- I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I…
- If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
- The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human…
- People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what…
- What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?
- She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human…
- The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement…
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