A brick could be used to save humanity from mortality. Or at least save us from mortar.
It is only human to be kind to others.
Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone.
I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.
'Lassie' was amazing. I didn't have any scenes with humans. There's a couple little bits, here or there, but mainly just me and my horse and a couple of dogs in the Isle of Man.
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
Not just art for art's sake, but I want to have films out there that will provoke authentic, holistic conversations about the human condition. And not provide the easy answers, but put it out there.
If you can that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.
It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.
