Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.
Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.
I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.
I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.
One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.
It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
