Quotes of: Human-reason Keyword

There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.

Mary Hart

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

Zoe Wanamaker

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

Natalie Babbitt

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are the glorifiers of the religious and phi...

Human, All Too Human

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in a...

The Humans

A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relati...

The Sickness Unto Death

She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, ‘Billy Slick doesn’t sound much like a goblin name?’ Billy made a face. ‘Too right! Granny calls me Of the Wind Regretfully Blown. What kind of n...

Snuff

["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human beings come about in the same way. For hatred of human beings arises from artlessly trusting somebody...

Phaedo

To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, ea...

Simone de Beauvoir

The winds of the heavens shift suddenly; so does human fate.

Chinese

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

Tracy Chapman

What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden?

Dies Irae

The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.

Dreams

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

Eugenics, the Science of Human Improvement by Better Breeding

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

in time to come be shaped by the human mind.” Asked

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Frankenstein

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences.

The Gamecocks

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

Of Human Bondage

To see the farm is to leave it.

The Handbook of Human Ownership: A Manual for New Tax Farmers