Human Quotes

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.