The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
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.
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.
An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
