Quotes of: Human-consciousness Keyword

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

The Casual Vacancy

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well.

The Essential Marcus Aurelius

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

Education and the Significance of Life

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist.

Elephant Girl: A Human Story

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse or direct.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that it exceeds a hundred.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

Flowers for Algernon

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

A moment later, the world's first all-purpose human being strode eastward, whistling. 'A tasty world,' it reflected cheerfully. 'A very tasty world.' 'You said it, Cornelius!

The Final Programme

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

The Furies

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!

Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy

There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.

The Good Father

Human beings used to be molecules which could do many, many different sorts of dances, or decline to dance at all --as they pleased. My mother could do the waltz, the tango, the rumba....

Galápagos

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

God and the State

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Of Human Bondage