Quotes of: Humanities Keyword

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

Jane Austen And Her Art

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

King of the Murgos

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

Ragtime

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

The Realm of the Nebulae

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

Revolutionary Road

Umut, inanç'a eşlik eden ruh halidir. Umutluluk hali olmaksızın inanç ayakta duramaz, dayanıksız kalır. Umut yalnız ve yalnız inanç temeli üzerinde durabilir.

The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.

Robot Visions

Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.

Stealing Athena

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

Sufi Thought and Action

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.

Speaker for the Dead

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Ship of Destiny

Only those who leave home ever really find it.

The Stuff of a Lifetime: Self, Sense, Soul, and Spirit in Human Experience

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Speaking of Faith

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

State of Fear

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

Siegfried

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

Shirley

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

The Subtle Knife

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

Single Dad Laughing

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

The Song of the Lark

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Miles to Go

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins