human quotes

• The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. (George Sand) [artist/light/human]
• No human creature can give orders to love. (George Sand) [human/give/love]
• The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. (Samuel Johnson) [right/result/human/wisdom]
• Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world. (Andre Maurois) [art/more/human]
• Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? (Pablo Picasso) [human/face]
• Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. (Stephen Leacock) [advertising/science/human/intelligence]
• There is something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive. (Robert Burton) [human/delight/virtue/quality]
• As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view. (John Galsworthy) [human/nature]
• There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. (Ronald Reagan) [growth/human/intelligence/imagination]
• If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. (Jimmy Carter) [fear/human]
• For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. (Jimmy Carter) [generation/life/human/happiness]
• Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. (Henry James) [human/life]
• My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. (George Santayana) [universe/men/human]
• Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. (George Santayana) [religion/taste/human/pleasure]
• A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. (Barbra Streisand) [human/being/trust]
• The human voice is the organ of the soul. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [human]
• To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. (Jane Fonda) [human/being/care/people]
• To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That s the true pathos and sublime Of human life. (Robert Burns) [wife/human/life]
• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. (William James) [more/human/being]
• Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. ( Socrates) [remember/human/condition/willpower]
• Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. ( Socrates) [death/human]
• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. (Theodore Dreiser) [art/human/wings]
• Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. (Theodore Dreiser) [stage/instinct/human]
• The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. (William Wordsworth) [pleasure/knowledge/human/society]
• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. (Joseph Addison) [education/human]
• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. (Joseph Addison) [human/life/enjoyment]
• Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. (Joseph Addison) [weakness/human/nature]
• To be human means to feel inferior. (Alfred Adler) [human]
• The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully. (Karl Albrecht) [human/life/think/matter]
• Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. (Hannah Arendt) [death/life/human]
• We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. (Hannah Arendt) [human/activities/life]

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