The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and wors...
Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under his own weight. Self-centered, stubborn, sentimental, childish, vain. I am humanity. Cynical, naive, kind, cruel, soft as down, hard as tungsten stee...
Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention.
Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-o...
Let us be today’s Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today’s church. With Christ’s light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must b...
The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain. not shoes but a place to walk. not cigarettes, they tell us, but a place to burn. or we're told: space and a place to fly might be the same. the dead don't need me. nor do t...
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.
Human beings crave freedom at their core.
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
Custom is the great guide to human life.
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.
Communal well-being is central to human life.
Human life is beyond comprehension.
Sports is the toy department of human life.
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
Nothing in human life is inherently private.
