Human Quotes

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.