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Humanness Quotes (page 11)

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
W. H. Auden quote: "Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself,..."
Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before. W. H. Auden
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. Albert Camus
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required. -The Coda Frank Herbert
Human beings... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition. Francis Crick
Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark. Anais Nin
human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions Salman Rushdie
Terence McKenna quote: "Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of..."
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic. Terence McKenna
Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love for freedom, for equality, for fraternity. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal processwhich is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake. Lytton Strachey
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power."
Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. Kurt Vonnegut
Bertrand Russell quote: "Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting..."
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. Bertrand Russell
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the... Aldous Huxley
Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food; Elizabeth Goudge

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