Quotes of: Human-being Keyword

Every book has it's destiny, Like a human life , Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins" The days of Childhood !!!!!

The Days Of Childhood

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

Decline and Fall

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge

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

Eddies of Life

How our attitudes are shaped and defended may be more changeable than we realize.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. .

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

Faith and Doubt

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Foundation and Empire

What humanity wants most is crude sensation. Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.

Full Dark House

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.

The Federalist Papers

Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.

The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

You will be surprised how much punishment the human body can take, if there is enough will - or faith.

Gagamba: The Spider Man

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Of Human Bondage

When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom

The Human Comedy

I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.

Human Detritus

People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

Hitler Burns Detroit

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Human, All Too Human

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Human, All Too Human