Famous Human Quotes
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Love is a flame that burns bright even in the darkest of times, reminding us of the resilience of the human spirit.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
To err is human to forgive, divine.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
Custom is the great guide to human life.
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.