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Humanities Quotes (page 9)

Nick Hornby quote: "Human beings are millions of things in one day."
Human beings are millions of things in one day. Nick Hornby
Margaret Atwood quote: "Humanity is so adaptable [...] Truly amazing, what people can..."
Humanity is so adaptable [...] Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. Margaret Atwood
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .. . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of... J. R. R. Tolkien
Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary. Albert Camus
Sydney Smith quote: "Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their..."
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. Sydney Smith
Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life? If life—the craving for which is the very essence of our... Arthur Schopenhauer
Pete Hamill quote: "Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's..."
Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies. Pete Hamill
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. Anne Lamott
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven. Novalis
Human consciousness at present is a sort of battlefield. And you know what Tolstoy tells us about battles in War and Peace. Nobody really knows what is going on during a battle... Saul Bellow
Human perversity, then, makes divisions of that which by nature is one and simple, and in attempting to obtain part of something which has no parts, succeeds in getting neither the part- which is nothing- nor the whole, which they are not interested in. Boethius
Human nature will not flourish, anymore than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. my children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Simone Weil quote: "Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such..."
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. Simone Weil
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. Michael Shermer
E. M. Forster quote: "Human beings have their great chance in the novel."
Human beings have their great chance in the novel. E. M. Forster

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