Best human-beings & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.”

Humans Light Age Justice Dark Human Beings Liberty Moral Christianity Greater Society Civilization Equal Tests Universal Slave Goddess Toys Savages Sentimental Dark Ages

Author:George William Curtis

“What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought”

World Humans Mean Self Facts Age Law Young Science Found Human Beings Pure Enlightenment Gains Agree Impression Fascinated Evident Young Age Succession Scientific Method Regularity

Author:Max Planck

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”

“We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience.”

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Book:Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

“The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.”

“There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.”

Humans Age Three Human Beings Majors Intellectual Mathematics Chess Pursuit Feats Puberty

Book:George Steiner: A Reader

Source: George Steiner: A Reader

“Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits.”

“The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.”

Years Humans Matter Age Lying Differences Human Beings Ten Fifty Toys

Author:Austin O'Malley

“The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings.”

“As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?”

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Author:Dogen

“The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even if you do manage to look reasonably well as you age, unfortunately you are attacked at every level by illness and so forth. It's a fact of life.”

Ifs Humans Wells Looks Facts Age Lasts Human Beings Levels Illness Manage Fascinating Facts Of Life

Author:Steven Morrissey

“We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.”

Years Humans Age Three Human Beings Existence Millions Taught Thousand Six Hundred Twenties Seven Statistics Take Time Seven Years

Book:A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas

Source: A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas

“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”

“The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution; its agitation revives the fiercest passions for good and for evil that inflame the human breast.”

Humans Problem Age Form Passion Evil Human Beings Millions Solutions Assuming Breasts Revive Agitation Life Or Death

Author:Emma Lazarus

“It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.”

Men Humans Children Age Lying Speak Chance Human Beings Mere Extraordinary Old Man

Book:La vieillesse

Source: La vieillesse

“What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.”

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

“The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.”

Humans May Eye Age Action Human Beings Months Significance Fifteen Sympathetic

Book:Self-reliance: A Practical and Informal Discussion of Methods of Teaching Self-reliance, Initiative and Responsibility to Modern Children

Source: Self-reliance: A Practical and Informal Discussion of Methods of Teaching Self-reliance, Initiative and Responsibility to Modern Children

“In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.”

Trying Humans War Hard Age Human Beings Controlled

Author:Jane Fonda

“Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.”

Way Humans Ideas War Age Human Beings Higher Consequence Sake Welcome Honour Heroism Search For Knowledge

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.”

“If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.”

Ifs Humans May Age Today Human Beings Violence Nuclear Embarrassing Acts Of Violence

Book:Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

“As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like older and wiser and respect your elders, promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.”

Humans Age Values Human Beings Statements Wiser Elders Promoting

Author:Jenna Morasca

“I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.”

Thinking Mind Humans Age Certain Loses Human Beings Nice Wonderful Acceptance Youth Gains Fairs Peace Of Mind Stamina

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.”

“We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.”

Humans Littles Age Human Beings Technology Skype Cubicles

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations mental illness clouds our judgment.”

“I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.”

Thinking Humans Seems Eye Age Asks Lost Left Human Beings Animal Eternal Slavery Tragic Reminders

Author:Edith Wharton

“No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that they lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Loses Human Beings Share Theory Perspective Behavior Argument Sight Silly Enormous Twelve Emerging Freeze Suitable Nineteen Bakers Silliness Eclairs

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the "golden years," not because everything's perfect . . . but because the kids are capable and independent. . . . They're becoming fascinating human beings who continually astound us and make us laugh. And they build our self-esteem. They still adore us for the most part, not yet having reached that age of thinking everything we do is dumb, old-fashioned and irrelevant.”

“[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.”

Humans Age Human Beings Forgotten Old Age

Author:Jeanne Calment

“Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.”

Way Humans Home Kids Age Guy Human Beings Brain Boring Bars Drunk

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who they are, no matter how healthy or strong or beautiful they are - are going to age and become weak and ugly by a certain standard, and die. And I think that's a terrifying idea for people to get their minds around.”

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Author:Mary Gaitskill

“My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.”

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Author:Max Bemis

“Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.”

“The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.”

Humans Age Values Individual Human Beings Levels Century Acquire Unimaginable Extravagance Wastefulness

Author:Peter Robinson

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