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Humans Quotes by Will Self
- What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence…
- Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has…
- A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think…
- I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling…
- Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands…
- With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our…
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
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- 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
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein