Quotes of: Human-reason Keyword

My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative".

Man's Search for Meaning

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species

In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society.

Mastery

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

Notes from the Cafe

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

No Longer Human

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'

But in my growth and development, I knew I wanted more. And more. Oh, God. So much more. It's what being human is all about.

Naked on the Moon

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 Neverending Story

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

No Name in the Street

How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world?

The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

A real, true love that makes a human being believe in the power of destiny happens only once in a lifetime.

The Lover from Fifth Avenue

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

Les Diaboliques

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

Les Misérables

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

Les Misérables

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.

Life of Pi

It's okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can.

The Little Silkworm