Human Quotes - page 5

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. (Edward Gibbon)
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Henry James
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
Herbert Simon
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. Forster
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. (George Bernard Shaw)
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
Stephen Harper
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift-a more human face.
Steve Biko
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
Dean Koontz
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.
François de La Rochefoucauld
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
Mikhail Bakunin
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. E. Cummings
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. (George Orwell)
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. Rowling
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer