People of religious distinction maintain that human beings exclusively possess souls, on the strength of which they may gain admittance to heaven. Only human beings lie, devise pogroms, murder for recreation, steal, libel, slander and perform crosswo...
But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying ...
Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.
... scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body.
It takes two to have a fight.
Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.
That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.
Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.
Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.
Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.
It is through love that the door to Heaven is opened on earth.
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Human nature is all alike.
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.
