Human Quotes - page 14

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The Savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Sex is God's joke on human beings. View quote
Bette Davis
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul. View quote
Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. View quote
Mark Twain
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me he can't be any worse. View quote
Mark Twain
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas-in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. View quote
Johann Georg Hamann
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics. View quote
Franz Boas
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. View quote
Edith Hamilton
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt