Quotes of: Humanities Keyword

The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired.

Ezra Taft Benson

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

Bob Graham

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Frances Wright

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Horace Mann

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

Wilhelm Dilthey

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.

Gerry Mulligan

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

George C. Williams

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

H. L. Mencken

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

Jonathan Frakes

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Mary Ellen Mark

The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

Marco Rubio

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Robert Casey

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

Ron Silver

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Samuel Johnson

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Vinoba Bhave

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Baruch Spinoza