Quotes of: Human-existence Keyword

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

Of Human Bondage

The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.

Human, All Too Human

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.

Bright Heritage

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

Being Human: Everything you didn't want to know about life.

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

Blindness

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

Andrew O'Hagan

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Agnes Macphail

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Mason Cooley

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

Frederick Sanger

There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

Atheism: The Case Against God

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Atlas of the Human Heart

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Horse's Neck

To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.

Hey Nostradamus!

I’ve been itching to kill a zombie lately. Can I take the lead on this one, dad?

The Human Race

There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep," said de Marsay.

The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times