human quotes
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the race.
He long ago learned to eschew the little turf-dances of human encounter.
You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work.
O marciano encontrou-me na rua e teve miedo de minha impossibilidade humana. Como pode existir, penseu consigo, um ser que no existir po e sem tamanha anula c° a o de existe" ncia? The Martian met me in the streets and was frightened by my human impossibility. He wondered how such a being could exist who could not exist without unmaking so much existence. 16
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own- goal scored by the human race against itself.
Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.
I believe every human has a finite number of heart- beats.I don't intend towasteanyof minerunning around doing exercises.
We expect the ticking movement of the human timepiece to be revealed.
The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Je ne supporterai plus d'e" tre un homme, je n'essaierai plus. I can no longer bear to be human and I will no longer try.
No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.
Whites must be made to realise that theyare only human, not superior.It'sthesamewith Blacks.Theymust be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.
For Mercy has a human heart Pity a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
And all must love the human form, In heathen,Turk or Jew; Where mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
God appears and God is light To those poor souls who dwell in night, But does a human form display To those who dwell in realms of day.
To be human at all we must stand fast a littleeven at the risk of being heroes.
Then gently scan your brother Man, Still gentler sister Woman; Tho'they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human.
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
Oh! that desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her!
Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.
Thehumanrace, towhichsomanyof my readersbelong, has beenplaying atchildren'sgamesfromthebeginning, and will probablydoittill the end, which isa nuisancefor the few people who grow up.
'Well, of course, people are only human,'said Dudley to his brother, as they walked to the house behind the women.'But it really does not seem much for them to be.'
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
The day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go. And in the work of abolishing it the Catholic and the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jew, the Catholic and the Freethinker, the Catholic and the Buddhist, the Catholic and the Mahometan will co- operate together For, as we have said elsewhere, Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic,Christian norFreethinker,Buddhist,Mahometan, nor Jew; it isonly HUMAN.
Humane, but not human.
[She] has several skins fewer than any other human beinga kind of psychological haemophilia, which is one reason why she writes so well, and why she is so vulnerable.
'I was ruminating,'said Mr Pickwick,'on the strange mutability of human affairs.' 'Ah! I seein at the palace door one day, out at the window the next. Philosopher, Sir?' 'An observer of human nature, sir,'said Mr Pickwick.
Something will come of this. I hope it mayn't be human gore!
Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.
All human things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
For insight into human affairs I turn to stories and poems rather than to sociology. This is the result of my upbringing and background.Iamnot abletomakeuse of the wisdom of the sociologists because I do not speak their language.
The mother's yearning, thatcompletest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality.
Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in historya plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. Those harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another, as wave follows upon wave; only one real fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations.Only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
Porque alla los espan oles y las otras nacionescomo tienen historias divinas y humanas, saben por ellas cua ndo empezaron a reinar sus Reyes y los ajenostodo esto y mucho ma s saben por sus libros. Empero vosotros, que carece is de ellos, Que memoria tene is de vuestras antiguallas?, Quie n fue el primero de nuestros Incas? Over there Spaniards and other nations know from their divine and human history when their Kings and other peoples' Kings began their reigns Their books teach them all of this, and much more. But you, who have no books, what memories do you have of your ancient past? Who was our first Inca?
England is a great and powerful nation, foremost in human progress, enemy to despotism, the only safe refuge for the exile, friend of the oppressed. If ever England should be so circumstanced as to require the help of anyally, cursed be the Italian who would not step forward with me in her defence.
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during whichthe conditionof thehumanrace was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
Science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programmed to collect pure information.
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
Writing is a formof therapy; sometimes Iwonder howall these people who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.
To model our political systems upon speculations of lasting tranquillity is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
This is the last day of1943, a year to be said goodbye to without regret, holding as it did nothing beyond captivity and depression, weary waiting, and above all the sight of immeasurable human misery, suffering and death.
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
Sex had never before asserted itself in her so strongly, for in former days she had perhaps been too impersonally human to be distinctively feminine.
It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
Ifthere istechnological advancewithout social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.
If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of humanreasonfor then we would know the mind of God.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Ich glaube sogar, durch Leidensk a« mpfe k o« nnten dieTiere zu Menschen werden. I believe that by suffering even animals could be made human.
You see there are portions of the human anatomy which would keep swinging after the music had finished.
O! men with sisters dear, O! men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
All theobjects of humanreasonorenquiry maynaturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, Relations of Ideas, and Matters of Fact.
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
The propagandist's purpose istomake oneset of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Perhaps it is indeed time that I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, whenwethink about it, it isnot sucha foolishthing to indulge inparticularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
I am for encouraging the progress of science in all its branches; and notforawing thehumanmind bystories of raw-head and bloody bones to a distrust of its own vision and to repose implicitly on that of others.
Man's contribution to human history is nothing more than a drop of sperm.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.
It isverystrange, and verymelancholy, thatthepaucityof humanpleasuresshould persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail, The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale, The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones, Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet, If human souls did never kiss and greet?
This is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered in the White Housewith the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
Being human, she must have been afraid of something, but one never found out what it was.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
Oui, quel est le plus profond, le plus impe ne trable des deux: l'oce an ou le c½ur humain? What is deeper, more impenetrable: the ocean or the human heart?
When you meet Mr. Smith first you think he looks like an over-dressed pirate. Then you begin to think him a character.You wonder at his enormous bulk. Then the utter hopelessness of knowing what Smith is thinking by merely looking at his features gets on your mind and makes the Mona Lisa seem an open book and the ordinary human countenance as superficial as a puddle in the sunlight.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
It is well to start by distinguishing the few really greatthemajornovelistswho count inthesamewayas the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.
We are volcanoes.When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
My imaginationmakesmehumanandmakesmea fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
La langue est une raison humaine qui a ses raisons, et que l'homme ne conna|"t pas. Language is a form of human reason, and has its reasons which are unknown to man. See Pascal 641:23.
The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position.On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of societyas one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth.On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is.
When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivativefromthispureactivitymanipulated bya sortof priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.
To err is human also in so far as the animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.
Human temperaments are too diverse; we can never agree how drunk we like our art to be.
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. 528
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.
We are great as our belief in human libertyno greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
If the art of poetry isthe art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.
La Poe sie est l'expression, par le langage humain ramene e a' son rythme essentiel, du sens myste rieux des aspects de l'existence; elle doue ainsi d'authenticite notre se jour et constitue la seule ta" che spirituelle. Poetry is an expression, through human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysteriousness of existence; it endows our life with authenticity and constitutes our only spiritual task.
All plays are about decay That is why the theater has always been essential to human psychic equilibrium.
Dass nicht alles auf einmal da ist, bleibt als Bedingung des Lebens und der Erz a« hlung zu achten, und man wird sich doch wohl gegen die gottgegebenen Formen menschlicher Erkenntnis nich auflehnen wollen. Let usnot forgetthe conditionof lifeasnarration: that we can never see the whole picture at onceunless we propose to throw overboard all the God-conditioned forms of human knowledge.
To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.
What is beauty, saith my sufferings, then? If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters'thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admire' d themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.
The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces and the more his production increases in powerand extent.The worker becomes anevercheaper commodity the more good he creates. The devaluation of the human world increases in direct relation with the increase in value of the world of things. Labour does not only create goods; it also produces itself and the worker as a commodity, and indeed in the same proportion as it produces goods.
The division of labour is nothing but the alienated establishment of human activity.
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life and degraded human life into material force.
The instruments of labour, when they assume the form of machinery, acquire a kind of material existence which involves the replacement of human forces by the forces of Nature, and of rule-of-thumb methods by the purposeful application of natural science.
In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.
Translation isthe paradigm, the exemplar of all writing It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing ina humanface or manifested by violent movement.The entirearrangement of my picture isexpressive: theplace occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share.
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
The varnishers and veneerers have been busily converting Abe into a plaster saintto pump all his human weaknesses out of him, and so leave him a mere moral apparition, a sort of amalgam of John Wesley and the Holy Ghost.
Unlike the Laws of Production, those of Distribution are partly of human institution, since the manner in which wealth is distributed in any given society, depends on the statutes or usages therein obtaining.
A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy of the human race.
The great joy of the artist is to become aware of a higher order of things, to recognize by the compulsive and spontaneous manipulation of his own impulses the resemblance between human creation and what is called 'divine'creation.
The human species is, to some extent, the result of mistakes which arrested our development and prevented us from assuming the somewhat unglamorous form of our primitive ancestors.
But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.
Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to th'angelic symphony.
Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout intotheregions of sinand falsity thanby reading all manner of tractates and hearing all manner of reason? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.
Theyare not skilful considerers of human things, who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin.
Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse,not beneaththereachofany pointthehighest that human capacity can soar to.
Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, of human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. 583
For man to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
As the god of contemporary man's idolatry, science is a two-handed engine, and as such science is too important a human activity to leave to the scientists.
By far the most valuable things, which we know or can imagine, are certain states of consciousness, which may be roughly described as the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects.
The Human Zoo.
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
It was not meant for human eyes, That combat on the shabby patch Of clods and trampled earth that lies Somewhere beneath the sodden skies For eye of toad or adder to catch.
Few have probably ever heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.
Each human spirit is immortalfor time cannot destroy
War alone can carry to the maximum tension all human energies and imprint with the seal of nobility those people who have the courage to confront it; every other test is a mere substitute.
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure unfinished masterpiece.
The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
Mensch werden ist eine Kunst. To become human is art.
In the final analysis, all architecture reveals the application of human ingenuity to the satisfaction of human needs. And among these needs are not only shelter, warmth and accommodation, but also the needs, felt at every moment in every part of the world in endlessly different ways, for something more profound, evocative and universal, for beauty, for permanence, for immortality.
For what is passes so swiftly and irrevocably into what was, no human claim can be of the least significance.
Of historyand its consequences it may be said: 'Those who can, gloat; those who can't, brood.' Englishmen are born gloaters; Irishmen born brooders. There are, it is true, brooders who take to gloating, and they did much to build the Empire.Yet the brooder-gloater, such as the Irishman turned Englishman, is not, as a human type, altogether a success. He is a little too much on his guard, like an excessivelyassimilated Jew, or a son of Harlem who has decided to'pass'. The past of the Irishman, the Jew, the Negro, is, psychologically, too explosive to be buried.
Es asombroso ver en que se puede convertir la revolucio n rusa a trave s del cerebro de un comerciante yanqui; basta ver las fotos de las revistas norteamericanas, nada ma s que las fotos porque no se leerlas, para comprender que nohay pueblo ma s imbe cil que e se sobre la tierra; no puede haberlo porque tambie n la capacidad de estupidez es limitada en la raza humana. It's astonishing to see what the Russian Revolution can become thanks to the brain of aYankee entrepreneur; you only have to see the photos in North American magazines, only the photos because I can't read them, to realize they're the most stupid people on earth; that's quite possible because even the human race has a limited potential for idiocy.
He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who doesnot so much disbelieve in God as personallydislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human facefor ever.
Science provides a vision of reality seen from the perspective of reason, a perspective that sees the vast order of the universe, living and non-living matter, as a material system governed by rules that can be known by the human mind.It is a powerful vision, formal and austere but strangely silent about many of the questions that deeplyconcernus. Scienceshowsuswhat existsbut not what to do about it.
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only theapplication of themthat is human. Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable asthose by whichthe universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property. So it is through property that we shall strike the enemy Be militant each in your own way I incite this meeting to rebellion.
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights.
The imperialists brought the Chinese people cannons rather than flowers, death instead of 'human rights' How can they be in a position to instruct us on'civil rights'?
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinelyand adequately philosophize, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincidecities will have no rest from evils, nor, I think, will the human race.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but alwaysTo be blest.
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Every occupation, unless it employs the whole mind and satisfies the human creative instinct, is to some extent absurd; and abouttheadvertising business what I chiefly disliked was not so much the work I did as its general atmosphere of unreality.We dealt in fairy-goldin fugitive dreams and illusions.
All my originality consistsin giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.
Information, freefrominterestorprejudice, freefromthe vanity of the writer or the influence of a Government, is as necessary to the human mind as pure air and water to the human body.
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between scarce resources and ends which have alternative uses It does not attempt to pick out certain kinds of behaviour, but focusesattentionona particular aspect of behaviour, the form imposed by the influence of scarcity.
The rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind, andonly in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.
Ibet you if Ihad met himand had a chat with him,Iwould have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.
It's great to be great but it's greater to be human.
Where, after all, do human rights begin? They begin in small places, close to homeso close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world.
I am not interested in relationships of color or form or anything else I am interested only in expressing the basic human emotionstragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so onand the fact that lots of people breakdown and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I communicate with those basic human emotions. The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point!
Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.
The greatest thing a humansoul everdoes in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one.
Take most people, they're crazy about cars I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.
I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farmyard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention. He generally becomes asstupidand ignorant asit ispossible for a human creature to become.
The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.
Sedulo curavi, humanas actiones non ridere, non lugare, neque detestari, sed intelligere. I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
The Old Testament makes woman a mere after-thought in creation; the author of evil; cursed in her maternity; a subject in marriage; and all female life, animal and human, unclean.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
Thisgrey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Ulysses With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own words as if his God's.
Clothed with his breath, and looking, as he walked, Larger than human on the frozen hills. He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before.
Homo sum: nihil humani a me alienum puto. I am a man, I regard nothing that is human alien to me.
Among the forests Of metal the one human Sound was the lament of The poets for deciduous language.
It is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave offeating animals, assurelyas the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they come in contact with the more civilized.
From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilizationworks its miracles and civilized man isturned almost into a savage.
The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
In1945 we did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations.Weset downonpaper the only principles that will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
[Science] seldom proceedsinthestraightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forwardare often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
The relation between the human tongue, the human psyche and butterfat is not very complex. The first two love the third.
Hissensuality has all drifted intosexual vanity, delight for being the candletothemoths, with a dash of intellectual curiosity to give flavour to his tickled vanity His incompleteness as a thinker, his shallow and vulgar view of many human relationshipsthe lack of a sterner kind of humour which would show him the dreariness of his farce and the total absence of proportion and inadequateness in some of his ideasall these defects came largely from the flippant and worthless self- complacency brought about by the worship of rather second-rate women.
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well onpaper, suchasnational budgets or industrial balance sheets.
Humanhistory becomesmoreand morea racebetween education and catastrophe.
Antifeminists, from Chesterton down to Dr Lionel Tayler, want women to specialise in virtue.While men are rolling round the world having murderous and otherwise sinful adventures of an enjoyable nature, in commerce, exploration or art, women are to stayat home earning the promotion of the human race to a better world.
If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.
From what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
Whenartcommunicates,a humanexperience isactively offered and actively received.Below this activity threshold there can be no art.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, nowapparent in whatever iswrittendown, istheformof a humanbeing.If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a' l'espe' ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e chappe me" me a' l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.
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