Human Quotes

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.