Human Quotes

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art.

So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered.

The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.

As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.