H Quotes
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“Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.”
“Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.”
Source: Symposium or Drinking Party
“Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition
“Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?”
Source: Olympos
“Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.”
“Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men havethe same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.”
“Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.”
Source: Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness
“Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.”
“Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.”
“Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth, then they can kind of mouth it with kind of believable sincerity, even if some of us.”
“Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.”
“Human beings have their great chance in the novel.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We’ve got to come up with a better answer.”
Source: Winter
“Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?”
“Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need
for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“Human beings in their brief lives have undertaken many risky endeavors, with the possibility of failure. But they risked getting a better life. That is why they needed Mithra – the one who made sure that what was promised was kept. That is why the law has become part of people’s dreams.”
Source: The Devil I Know Him
“Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth. The queer earth was a mosaic of sleepers who nestled like spoons.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the past as immutable and fixed, the present as reflecting actuality, and the future as undefined and nebulous. As time passes, the moment that was once was part of the present becomes part of the past; and a moment of the heretofore previously unrealized future arrives and becomes the new present. The past is a record, the present is real, and the future is an imaginary thought.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.”
Source: Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
“Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night.”
Source: Runaway Horses
“Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.”
“Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.”
“Human beings long for connection, and our sense of usefulness derives from the feeling of connectedness. When we are connected — to our own purpose, to the community around us, and to our spiritual wisdom — we are able to live and act with authentic effectiveness.”
Source: The Genius Myth
“Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.”
“Human beings look so different from each other, voices are so different, everything about us is so individual, and that's so exciting and juicy and appealing, and we're attached to these things and they're so fascinating and beautiful - I don't just mean model-beautiful, but all the individual forms that people can take.”
“Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.”
Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences
“Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.”
“Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.”
“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
Source: Hogfather
“Human beings make mistakes despite careful thinking.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”
Source: Ender's Game
“Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.”
Source: Wars of Blood and Faith
“Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.”
Source: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”
“Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
“Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it was folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.”
Source: The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor
“Human beings need certificates of education, but knowledge needs no certification.”
“Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.”
“Human beings need land even more so than they need money; the monopoly of land - not the monopoly of money - is the primary driver of poverty and inequality. Once we understand that the issue is lack of affordable access to land, and therefore to community, we understand why the value of land has to be shared.”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
“Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.”
“Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.”
Source: The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
“Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.”
“Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.”
Source: Greene on Capri: A Memoir
“Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale -- a daydream." "Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today.”
Source: Jane Eyre (World Classics, Unabridged)
“Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for 'beliefs.'... We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”
Source: The Lost World
“Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”
“Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.”
“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”
Source: A Distant Mirror
“Human beings often interpret lawfulness as restriction. But in nature, lawfulness is the foundation of harmony. Without gravity, nothing would hold. Without cycles, nothing would renew. Without predictability, nothing would survive. Lawfulness is not the enemy of freedom. It is the condition for existence.”
Source: The Illusion of Freedom: Understanding the Limits That Shape Our Lives