What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.
The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis.
I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.
The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.
The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
Land is a frontier for ship; it cannot go beyond it! The extent of dreams is a frontier for human being; it cannot go beyond it!
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
