Human Quotes

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.