A Quotes
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“All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.”
“All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.”
Source: The collected aphorisms
“All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.”
“All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.”
“All human existence is a trick of light.”
Source: The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
“All human eyes have longing in them.”
Source: Love
“All human failings give us, in life, the means of exercising our philosophy”
Source: The Misanthrope
“All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.”
“All human happiness and misery take the form of action.”
“All human happiness is sensuous happiness.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.”
Source: His Heiress Wife
“All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99”
“All human history he knew was a lie.”
Source: Three Immortals
“All human history moves towards one great goal”
Source: Ulysses
“All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.”
“All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach.”
Source: The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
“All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it”
Source: John Smith, U.S.A.
“All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.”
“All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.”
“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”
“All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.”
“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.”
“All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.”
“All human life can be found in an airport.”
“All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.”
“All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.”
“All human life is precious.”
“All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“All human life, we may say, consists solely of these two activities: (1) bringing one’s activities into harmony with conscience, or (2) hiding from oneself the indications of conscience in order to be able to continue to live as before.
Some do the first, others the second. To attain the first there is but one means: moral enlightenment — the increase of light in oneself and attention to what it shows. To attain the second — to hide from oneself the indications of conscience—there are two means: one external and the other internal. The external means consists in occupations that divert one’s attention from the indications given by conscience; the internal method consists in darkening conscience itself.
As a man has two ways of avoiding seeing an object that is before him: either by diverting his sight to other more striking objects, or by obstructing the sight of his own eyes—just so a man can hide from himself the indications of conscience in two ways: either by the external method of diverting his attention to various occupations, cares, amusements, or games; or by the internal method of obstructing the organ of attention itself. For people of dull, limited moral feeling, the external diversions are often quite sufficient to enable them not to perceive the indications conscience gives of the wrongness of their lives. But for morally sensitive people those means are often insufficient.
The external means do not quite divert attention from the consciousness of discord between one’s life and the demands of conscience. This consciousness hampers one’s life; and in order to be able to go on living as before, people have recourse to the reliable, internal method, which is that of darkening conscience itself by poisoning the brain with stupefying substances.
One is not living as conscience demands, yet lacks the strength to reshape one’s life in accord with its demands. The diversions which might distract attention from the consciousness of this discord are insufficient, or have become stale, and so—in order to be able to live on, disregarding the indications conscience gives of the wrongness of their life—people (by poisoning it temporarily) stop the activity of the organ through which conscience manifests itself, as a man by covering his eyes hides from himself what he does not wish to see.”
Source: Why do men stupefy themselves?: And other writings
“All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God. Nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person...If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole moral order.”
“All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.”
Source: From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel
“All human loneliness can be filtered down in one way or another to the singular, tragic element of silence...”
Source: Dropseed: The Story of Three Sad Women
“All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.”
“All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.”
“All human males were as fascinated with cars as they were with breasts.”
“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.”
“All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.”
“All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against the next boatload approaching the shore. To defend one’s home and fields and ancestral graves against invasion seems a right. But to claim unique possession – to compound the fact of settlement with the aspect of a landscape into an abstract of eternal and immutable ownership – is a joke.”
“All human power is a compound of time and patience. Powerful beings will and wait.”
Source: Eugenie Grandet
“All human power is a compound of time and patience.”
Source: Eugenie Grandet
“All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.”
Source: Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
“All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human activities within this context is our way into the future.”
“All human progress is in a circle; or, to use a more accurate and beautiful figure, in an ascending spiral curve. While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something long ago tried and abandoned, but which we now find etherealized, refined, and perfected to its ideal. The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.”
Source: The house of the seven gables
“All human progress is preceded by new questions”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.”
Source: Minority Report
“All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author
“All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark”
Source: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers
“All human relationships must be purchased with money.”
Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
“All human rules are more or less idiotic.”
Source: Following the Equator: