human quotes

• Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man. (Mary McCarthy) [trace/product/human/activity]
• Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man. (Mary McCarthy) [trace/product/human/activity]
• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. (Margaret Mead) [culture/human/human/willpower]
• When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed. (Margaret Mead) [human/more/artist/mystic]
• Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. (Herman Melville) [look/human/sky/god]
• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. (H. L. Mencken) [human/war]
• Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. (H. L. Mencken) [/human/right]
• The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do. (H. L. Mencken) [human/reputation/being]
• A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. (George Meredith) [human/motion/account]
• If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today. (Myriam Miedzian) [human/age/acts]
• Broadway, such as I see it now and have seen it for twenty-five years, is a ramp that was conceived by St. Thomas Aquinas while he was yet in the womb. It was meant originally to be used only by snakes and lizards, by the horned toad and the red heron, but when the great Spanish Armada was sunk the human kind wriggled out of the ketch and slopped over, creating by a sort of foul, ignominious squirm and wiggle the cunt-like cleft that runs from the Battery south to the golf links north through the dead and wormy center of Manhattan Island. (Henry Miller) [human/golf]
• Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. (Henry Miller) [human]
• It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. (Marianne Moore) [human/nature/thing]
• The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo. (Desmond Morris) [human]
• Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. (Malcolm Muggeridge) [television/human]
• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. (Iris Murdoch) [human/seriously]
• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. (Iris Murdoch) [art/human/face]
• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. (Benito Mussolini) [war/human/courage]
• The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [knowledge/human/willpower/opponent]
• There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [benefit/instruction/human/more]
• The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [human/experience/tragedies/life]
• All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins. ( Ovid) [human]
• Human nature is not of itself vicious. (Thomas Paine) [human/nature]
• All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. (Thomas Paine) [human/mankind/power/profit]
• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. (Octavio Paz) [universe/human/point/time]
• I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life. (Anthony Perkins) [more/love/human/understanding]
• Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. (Luigi Pirandello) [nature/human/imagination/creation]
• Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. (William Pitt) [human/argument]
• States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. ( Plato) [men/human]
• In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. ( Plutarch) [human/life/change/fortune]
• To err is human, to forgive is divine. (Alexander Pope) [human]

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