H Quotes
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“Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.”
“Human perception is literally incarnation.”
Source: Christian humanism in leters
“Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case, a parting of the ways. Whoever realises this will do cleaner work one way or the other.
Technical perfection strives towards the calculable, human perfection towards the incalculable. Perfect mechanisms - around which, therefore, stands an uncanny but fascinating halo of brilliance - evoke both fear and Titanic pride which will be humbled not by insight but only by catastrophe.
The fear and enthusiasm we experience at the sight of perfect mechanisms are in exact contrast to the happiness we feel at the sight of a perfect work of art. We sense an attack on our integrity, on our wholeness. That arms and legs are lost or harmed is not yet the greatest danger.”
Source: The Glass Bees
“Human personality is akin to the lighting design in cinema: once set, it illuminates the narrative of one's life without alteration, much like the enduring essence of certain individuals.”
“Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and intellectual structures are learned. I think that this assumption is wrong. None of these structures is learned. They all grow; they grow in comparable ways; their ultimate forms are heavily dependent on genetic predispositions.”
“Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the needs and wants of the human population, which continues to escalate.”
“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.”
“Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.”
“Human potential is incomputable.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“Human potential is not limited by technology, but rather, it is unlocked by it. The value of AI lies in the human touch that drives it forward.”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.”
“Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything.”
“Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.”
“Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.”
Source: Inviting Positive Classroom Discipline
“Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource.”
“Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of understanding the languages of all, as he re-establishes the bridge of authentic communication between earth and Heaven.”
“Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.”
“Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.”
Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
“Human progress and human cultures are not founded by the multitude, they are the works of personal genius and personal efficiency”
“Human progress can fast toward enlightenment and fast in starvation of empathy; faith dies where advancement outruns conscience.”
“Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.”
“Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.”
“Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.”
“Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths”
Source: Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
“Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.”
Source: Second Mencken Chrestomathy
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of man ascends and descends, wanders off into mazes. At times the trail seems to lose itself in the wilderness of human passion and folly. But inch by inch it goes forward with halting steps.”
“Human progress isn't measured by industry, it's measured by the value you put on a life.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.”
“Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite transitory and apparent successes, they are reduced to simple machinations destined to dissolution and failure.”
“Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.”
Source: The Oresteia trilogy: (Agamemnon, Choephoroe [and] Eumenides) [and] Prometheus bound
“Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.”
Source: The God Delusion
“Human psychology is that anything you do in a group feels right. People as a group can kill someone and call it religious because it feels right to them. Religion and righteousness are not the same thing. Religion is about going beyond right and wrong and seeing things as they are without any prejudices and judgements.”
“Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world.”
“Human race cannot coexist with nuclear weapons”
“Human race don't go extinct but only if we treat each other as a human regardless of gender, color, class, and ethnicity.”
“Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.”
“Human reason, as a tool, is not perfect, particularly during the period when we are learning to use it.”
“Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: the vanity of human wished: The History of Solÿman and Almena by John Langhorne
“Human reason can excuse any evil.”
Source: Divergent Trilogy
“Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.”
Source: Divergent Trilogy
“Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.”
“Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.”
“Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason.”
“Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.”
Source: Kant
“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
It falls into this difficulty without any fault of its own.”
Source: Critique of pure reason
“Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.”
Source: The Year Of The Flood