T Quotes
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“The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.”
Source: Plays: 1957-1980: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
“The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good”
“The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.”
Source: Helen, etc
“The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.”
“The human holds itself limited knowledge within the knowledge of the universe, gifted by the Divine blessings; thus, the human has not the capability to measure all subjects in its large-scale dimensions on this planet. As a fact, human falls under natural restrictions and limits, whereas the limitation cannot generate and reach the measure of all things.”
“The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.”
Source: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s
“The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.”
Source: The Taking: A Novel
“The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.”
Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
“The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.”
“The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.”
Source: Keeping a Rendezvous
“The human immune system is tied into the seasons.”
“the human in me
doesn’t belong to this society”
Source: Sapling: The Beginner's Guide to the Art of Modern Poetry
“The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've been reading some philosophy - everybody seems to agree that the instinct and responsibility of all humans is to take care of themselves first. You have the right to self-defense. You have the right to survive, if you can.”
“The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.”
“The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.”
“The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests.”
“The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“The Human is the most insane species”
“The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay only once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves.”
“The Human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. Every time we remember, we judge ourselves again, we are guilty again, and we punish ourselves again and again and again.”
“The human is the only guilty animal.”
Source: East of Eden
“The human journey begins in the head and ends in the heart.”
“The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.”
“The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.”
Source: Northrop Frye on Canada
“The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.”
“The human life cycle no less than evolves around the box; from the open-topped box called a bassinet, to the pine box we call a coffin, the box is our past and, just as assuredly, our future. It should not surprise us then that the lowly box plays such a significant role in the first Christmas story. For Christmas began in a humble, hay-filled box of splintered wood. The Magi, wise men who had traveled far to see the infant king, laid treasure-filled boxes at the feet of that holy child. And in the end, when He had ransomed our sins with His blood, the Lord of Christmas was laid down in a box of stone. How fitting that each Christmas season brightly wrapped boxes skirt the pine boughs of Christmas trees around the world.”
Source: The Christmas Box
“The human life-essence, let's call it soul, is infinite, unconditioned, eternal immanence of the Whole. The sufi, yogi, free-mystics of East, of India, since yore have known so. Rare is the one who overcomes one's unwholesome-ness to by self discover the Whole.”
“The human life form vibrates at a certain rate, but all vibratory rates are not suitable for human life. So it's very necessary to meditate on higher octave energy, on the clear light, on joy, on happiness.”
“The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.”
“The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.”
“The human mind – a product of the brain – controls our ability to adapt to a hostile or friendly environment. Human beings are composed of fields of energy, some of which forces are positive, and other force fields are negative. We can use constructive reason to penetrate only a limited segment of the human mind, which projects discernible logical thought process. A person’s mind also houses dark areas of reality, the mysterious apparatus that eludes the grasp of human reason. We can never express the truth of a person with a precise lucid principle. A person must travel beyond realism in order to explore every facet of his or her being and live his or her most cherished dreams.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The human mind always pines for what isn't there. That is scarcity thinking. But all human progress and your Happiness lie in the celebration of what is there, in doing what is possible with whatever you have. That is resourcefulness. That is abundance thinking! Cheerfully, fearlessly, embrace this way of thinking, this way of Life…your Happiness will never let you down!”
“The human mind and body are like a slug, as it can be a year before you see the full effects of introducing a nutritional supplement.”
“The human mind and body contains a myriad of secrets awaiting discovery.”
“The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.”
“The human mind and the peacock’s tail may serve similar biological functions. The peacock’s tail is the classic example of sexual selection through mate choice. It evolved because peahens (female peacock) preferred larger, more colorful tails. Peacocks would survive better with shorter, lighter, drabber tails. But the sexual choices of peahens have made peacocks evolve big, bright plumage that takes energy to grow and time to preen, and makes it harder to escape from predators such as tigers.
The human mind’s most impressive abilities are like the peacock’s tail: they are courtship tools, evolved to attract and entertain sexual partners. By shifting our attention from a survival-centered view of evolution to a courtship-centered view, I shall try to show how, for the first time, we can understand more of the richness of human art, morality, language, and creativity.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“The human mind and what we've achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts”
“The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.”
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.”
Source: The desert year
“The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.”
“The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.”
Source: The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
“The human mind can solve the problem of climate change, but the world is ruled by the mind of politicians, and this low mind always produce problems, let alone solve a problem!”
“The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.”
Source: Spinoza: The Complete Works
“The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.”
“The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there.”
Source: From Below
“The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.”
Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.”
Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)
“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed”
Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)