Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under his own weight. Self-centered, stubborn, sentimental, childish, vain. I am humanity. Cynical, naive, kind, cruel, soft as down, hard as tungsten stee...
Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention.
Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-o...
Let us be today’s Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today’s church. With Christ’s light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must b...
I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
Custom is the great guide to human life.
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
Human life is beyond comprehension.
Sports is the toy department of human life.
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
Nothing in human life is inherently private.
Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.
I'm a big believer in human nature.
It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.
