Our Human Quotes
190 Our Human quotes by 164 unique authors
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Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.
— Stephen Leacock
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.
— Jane Yolen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Our Human Quotes
164 authors contributed a total of 190 Our Human Quotes, led by these top contributors: