Quotes of: Human-being Keyword

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

The Doctrine of the Mean

There is no fixed formula for prayer. It has to be spontaneous, sincere, and affectionate. It is an over pouring of human spirit to God

Dolmens in the Blue Mountain

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

The Devil's Punchbowl

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

The Daybreakers

4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITY When you lose reasoning you forget humanity, When you forget laughter you lose Divinity. [222] – 4

Eddies of Life

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

Education of a Wandering Man

You have really nice teeth,” Terry said and thought they could be excellent for his collection of human body parts.

Everyday Psychopaths

Ecological awareness expands the context of life; it also enlarges who we are as a person.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Ender's Shadow

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Essays: First and Second Series

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

The Engineer of Human Souls

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.

The Front Porch Prophet

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

The Golden Age of Science Fiction

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.

The Ghost in the Machine

Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all men.

Of Human Bondage

He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps.

The Human Factor

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Human, All Too Human

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Human, All Too Human