Human Quotes - page 6

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. (Helen Keller)
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
Bertolt Brecht
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Ingrid Bergman
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
H. L. Mencken
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Heinrich Heine
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
Robin Morgan
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittain
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
Martin Heidegger
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Charles Baudelaire
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel de Cervantes
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
Charles Dickens
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Anthony Hopkins
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.
Dan Brown
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. (Walt Whitman)
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
Michael Ondaatje
I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
Walter Jon Williams