For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Plutarch

Custom is the great guide to human life.

David Hume

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Martin Luther

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge

Voltaire

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

Immanuel Kant

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Simone Weil

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.

Benjamin Franklin

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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.

Gertrude Stein

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them – that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

Karl Philipp Moritz

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.

Victor Hugo

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Søren Kierkegaard

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Ferdinand Foch

Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.

Albert Einstein

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Emma Goldman

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.

Albert Einstein

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

William James

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Charles Dickens

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Emma Goldman

To err is human to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

D. H. Lawrence

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

George Sand

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

William Hazlitt

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Virginia Woolf

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Victor Hugo

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Mark Twain

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Ambrose Bierce

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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.

Emma Goldman

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Max Planck

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Woodrow Wilson

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Love is a flame that burns bright even in the darkest of times, reminding us of the resilience of the human spirit.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Joseph Conrad

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Hesiod

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Denis Diderot

The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Samuel Johnson

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?

Virginia Woolf

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

John Locke

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Edward Gibbon

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.

Simone Weil