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Humanness Is Quotes (page 15)

Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit. Upton Sinclair
Christopher Hitchens quote: "Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. Christopher Hitchens
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? Haruki Murakami
Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care which all of us owe to providence. Nathaniel Hawthorne
E. O. Wilson quote: "Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial..."
Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture. E. O. Wilson
Eudora Welty quote: "Human life is fiction's only theme."
Human life is fiction's only theme. Eudora Welty
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100) Rollo May
Mark Twain quote: "Human nature is all alike."
Human nature is all alike. Mark Twain
Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish. Victor Hugo
Terence McKenna quote: "Human history is a Gaian dream."
Human history is a Gaian dream. Terence McKenna
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies? and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia. William James
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die. Philip Pullman
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose..."
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot. Robert Anton Wilson
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. Oscar Wilde
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated. Victor Hugo

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