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Humanities Quotes (page 142)

Alice James quote: "One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an..."
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James
Let other complain that the age is wicked; my complaint is that it is paltry; for it lacks passion. Men's thoughts are thin and flimsy like lace, they are themselves pitiable like the lacemakers. The thoughts of their hearts are too paltry to be sinful. For a worm it might be regarded as a sin to harbor such thoughts, but not for a being made in the image of God. Their lusts are dull and sluggish, their passions sleepy...This is the reason my soul always turns back to the Old Testament... Soren Kierkegaard
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom,... Daniel Dennett
Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves. George Orwell
Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.[Mr Harrington's washing] W. Somerset Maugham
...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand. W. E. B. Du Bois
But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves. Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human. Herman Melville
Stephen Colbert quote: "You said in your book that at the end of the day, every..."
You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day? Stephen Colbert
Doug Coupland quote: "What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a..."
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives. Doug Coupland
Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others. Fred Rogers
Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed. Dean Koontz
Helen Keller quote: "The richness of the human experience would lose something of..."
The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. Helen Keller
I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the human animal, and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen. Kingsley Amis
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap... Now there are times when a whole generation is caught in this way between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence that it loses all power to understand... Herman Hesse
Saul Bellow quote: "A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived..."
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death. Saul Bellow

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