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“The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.”

Humans Ideas Real Belief Growing Personality Higher Ideals Eternity Absolutes Raises Developing Thirst Superhuman Coherence

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.”

Thinking Trying Mind Humans Animal Study Personality Human Personality

Author:Sara Gruen

“Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.”

Humans Personality Eternal Deserve Kingdoms Ideology Human Personality

Author:A. B. Yehoshua

“The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.”

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Author:Sadegh Hedayat

“Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.”

Mind Humans Two Literature Perfect Creativity Information Creation Fool Personality Conscious Function Deeper Surface Human Mind Two Personalities

Author:E. M. Forster

“In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and worth of each living creature. Too bad we forget so often.”

Humans Simple Forget Animal Particular Personality Creatures Scripture Living Creatures

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.”

Giving Humans Looks Persons Stills Different Brain Planets Personality Bones Billions Lifts Awe Get Over Human Brain

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”

Humans Made Opinion Personality Red Academic Traits Vague

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.”

World Humans Whole Fear Personality Whole World Human Personality

Author:William Faulkner

“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.”

Way Humans Seems Realizing Powerful Emotion Personality Essentials Despair Ambition Driven Components Human Personality Mysterious Benedict Society Powerful Emotions

Author:Trenton Lee Stewart