Home / Topics / Humans Quotes

Humans Quotes

Browse 32533 quotes about Humans.

Humans Quotes

“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.”

Humans Use Bless Mars Human Happiness

Author:Joseph Fort Newton

“The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.”

Humans Wells Self Helping Race Teach Self Help Well Being Self Reliance Reliance Human Happiness

Author:Marcus Garvey

“The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.”

Humans Self Forget Secret Seeking Human Happiness

Book:Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions

Source: Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions

“All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.”

Humans Love Is Built Human Happiness

Book:His Heiress Wife

Source: His Heiress Wife

“Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.”

Source: The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment

“My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.”

Humans Matter Feelings My Own Deserving Human Happiness Random Things

Book:Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.”

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.”

Humans Kind Prejudice Welfare Destroyers Human Happiness

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.”

Needs Humans Enough Reality Happiness Lying Stage Bears Spread Substance Over It Pits Earthquakes Scenery Blackness Chasms Human Happiness

Book:Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography