"We are human, and nothing is more interesting……" — M H Abrams
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
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20 Quotes by M H Abrams
M H Abrams has 20 quotes on this site.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the…
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is…
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It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as…
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily…
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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing.…
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More Human Quotes
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
— Hannah Arendt
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
— Aristotle
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or…
— J. J. Abrams
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
— Paul Auster
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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