Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.
I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
.. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
