Quotes of: Human-being Keyword

As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

Second Helpings

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

Sweeney's Island

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative".

Man's Search for Meaning

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species

In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society.

Mastery

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'

How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world?

The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

Les Diaboliques

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

Les Misérables

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

Les Misérables

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.

Life of Pi

Just like science, there must be other kinds of sensations which haven't yet been felt by the human heart at all.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact with aliens, while humans are still making bloodshed with each other.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

I see science and mysticism as two complementary manifestations of the human mind; as its rational and intuitive faculties. Capra

The Science of Vampires

There are humans, and there are ghosts. Vampires are just in a different state of transition. Not part of the human world and not part of the spirit world. We are just caught somewhere in between life and the real death.

Song of the Vampire

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

A Tale of Two Cities

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human