Human Quotes
Being human is a work in progress.
These human quotes take a reflective turn, covering our capacity to change and adapt, the elusive search for real satisfaction beyond consumption, and a candid look at why relationships often fall short of what we hope for. For more, see our Human Being quotes.
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I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
I'm an academic. I did my PhD in fluid dynamics and now I work at the University College London in an interdisciplinary department looking at patterns of human behaviour in urban settings.
The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.
We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
