For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.
The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand the nature of human aesthetic sense … and then failed, miserably, in every regard.
The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations,' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.
Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.
It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.
...women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.
But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.
When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives; we also experience less of a soothing uplift from the positives.
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.
To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.
Leadership is a dynamic process that expresses our skill, our aspirations, and our essence as human beings.
All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.
I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.
The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.
I have a dream, humans were part of aliens on earth. I also dream, that some humans are really indigenous.
Death is the privilege of human nature And life without it were not worth our taking Thither the poor, the unfortunate, and Mourner Fly for relief & lay their burdens down.
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
