Quotes of: Humanities Keyword

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

The Spider's House

The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

Submission, Faith & Beauty: The Religion of Islam

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Sexuality and the Psychology of Love

They say our suffering is an inevitable part of the human condition; just accept it. But the greatest human skill is that of a choice maker.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

My Inventions

...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.

Mrs. Miniver

There is an odd quirk in the human mind that makes a fearful man prefer to go quietly to a wicked-looking, gnarled "witch" for a countercharm than to a respectable licensed sorcerer or an accredited priest of the Church.

Murder and Magic

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.

My Country And My People

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition

The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand the nature of human aesthetic sense … and then failed, miserably, in every regard.

The Madness Season

The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations,' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

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 power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

The Neverending Story

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

...women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.

The Old Man in the Corner

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

On Liberty

When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives; we also experience less of a soothing uplift from the positives.

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.

The Love of Being Loving