Quotes of: Human-existence Keyword

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

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a for his actions.

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation V-VII

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

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Human, All Too Human

Giving up also takes courage.

Amazed: A Girl’s Infinite Pursuit to Grasp the Essence of Humanity in Writing

He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.

Bone Idol [bohn ahydl]

One person may look and only see a tree, whereas others may look and see a tree with leaves.

Bright Moments - A Journey In The Human Mind

Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings...

Brother Odd

By Real Acting I mean “an imitation of human behavior that is both emotionally natural and mechanically precise enough as to elicit tears or laughter from humans.

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