Quotes of: Humanities Keyword

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

Just like science, there must be other kinds of sensations which haven't yet been felt by the human heart at all.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact with aliens, while humans are still making bloodshed with each other.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

It was as natural as breathing to all human beings, and to all warm-blooded creatures, for that matter, to wish quick deaths for monsters. This was an instinct.

Slapstick or Lonesome No More!

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

Song of Solomon

I see science and mysticism as two complementary manifestations of the human mind; as its rational and intuitive faculties. Capra

The Science of Vampires

There are humans, and there are ghosts. Vampires are just in a different state of transition. Not part of the human world and not part of the spirit world. We are just caught somewhere in between life and the real death.

Song of the Vampire

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.

Styles of Radical Will

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Thinking Skills - Using Your Brain in the Information Age

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

A Tale of Two Cities

The greatest riddle of all.... the riddle of man! The complex mystery of the universal human being as he stands wihtin the threshold of universal laws. This is the most fascinating puzzle!

Temple of the Grail

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not – Heaven help us – all having lodgment at one time or another in the human spirit?

Orlando

... a hunger that is more than simply material connects the human who feeds the chickens to the chickens that feed the humans.

Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet

La vie humaine est limitée, mais je voudrais vivre éternellement – Human life is limited but I would like to live forever. - Yukio Mishima

The Possessions Of Doctor Forrest

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Père Goriot