Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.
I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion.' I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.
The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.
Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.
I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known.
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.
Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.
The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
