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Humanities Quotes (page 10)

Virginia Woolf quote: "Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity..."
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. Virginia Woolf
Humanity does not ask to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. Orson Scott Card
Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech. Mahatma Gandhi
Elie Wiesel quote: "Humanity would never tolerate it"
Humanity would never tolerate it Elie Wiesel
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals."
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals. Barbara Kingsolver
Peter De Vries quote: "Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from..."
Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. Peter De Vries
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams. Oscar Wilde
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again. Madeleine L'Engle
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure..."
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece Vladimir Nabokov
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool..."
Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate. Friedrich Nietzsche
Human curiosity. Such a very interesting thing. Think of what we owe to it throughout history. It is said to be usually associated with the cat. Curiosity killed the cat. But I should say really that the Greeks were the inventors of curiosity. Agatha Christie
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable Harry S. Truman
Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies? Kemal Ataturk
Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances. Daisaku Ikeda
William James quote: "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,..."
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. William James

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