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190 Our Human quotes by 164 unique authors

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it. — Stephen Leacock
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary… — Carl Jung
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to… — Nelson Mandela
There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is… — Joyce Meyer
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard… — Anna Louise Strong
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful… — Henry B. Eyring
Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator,… — Archibald MacLeish
Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it… — Graham Greene
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed… — Ivan Turgenev
There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things… — Michael Ondaatje
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society… — Elwyn Brooks White
The problem that faces us is the problem of awakening. What we lack is not an ideology or doctrine that will save the world. What… — Nhat Hanh
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. — Ram Dass
There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry,… — Abraham Kuyper
You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in… — Joyce Carol Oates
when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions… — Martin Amis
Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition. — Jane Yolen
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of… — Jacques Ellul
Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope… — Bertrand Russell
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness… — Primo Levi
We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be… — Henri Nouwen
Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of… — Victor Pelevin
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in… — Wendell Berry

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