Quotessence
Home / Topics / Humans Quotes

Humans Quotes

Browse 32533 quotes about Humans.

Related topics

Human BeingsIfsPeopleWorldMenThinkingWayKnowsMindHuman NatureNeedsRaceHuman LifeHuman RaceWantHeartRightsAnimalShouldBelieveMayMeanHuman RightsHas BeensPersonsSoulDoeFeelsGivingBodyMadeSpiritKindEarthWellsHuman MindFirstsHumanityArtFormTryingImportantConditionsLongYearsLooksFactsIdeasReasonTwoSelfWholeStillsExistenceSeemsChildrenIndividualNaturalLittlesRealValuesEndsProblemDifferentMatterHuman HeartStoriesLawSufferingUseCharacterFeelingsStatesWarMomentsLife IsDivineWritingHelpingLifeSpiritualSocialFacesUniverseHuman ConditionRealityActionPlanetsCultureSpeciesSometimesDesireHuman SpiritMightUnderstandingBrainOrderSaidHuman HistoryForcemore

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.”

MenWritingHumansEndsMightArtistHumanityForceCreativeClearFateAchieveHe ManCostOrdinarySubtleUrgesVehicleBiographiesGreat ArtCunningUnbornGreat ArtistYokeForces Of NatureHuman Happiness
Author:Carl Jung
Create image

“Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to jump up and down, exaggeratedly scratch themselves and holler in a way that must make the primates wonder how this otherwise so intelligent species has come to depend on such inferior means of communication.”

PeopleWayHumansMeanBeliefWonderCommunicationDependsSightIntelligentSpeciesContraryUrgesReverseInferiorsMonkeysScratchesUp And DownApesIrresistiblePrimatesMeans Of Communication
Author:Frans de Waal
Create image

“One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic urge is to reach out to another human being, even at a cost to ourselves. Giving to others-the urge to empathize, to be compassionate, and to help others altruistically-is not the exception to the rule, but our natural state of being. Our impulse to connect with each other has developed an automatic desire to do for others, even at personal cost. Altruism comes naturally to us. It is selfishness that is culturally conditioned and a sign of pathology.”

InspirationalGivingHumansStatesHelpingDesireNaturalHuman BeingsCostFundamentalsInstinctHelping OthersSelfishnessImpulseExceptionUrgesCompassionateReach OutAltruismDominationDemonstrationPathologyGiving To OthersNatural InstinctSelf GivingException To The Rule
Author:Lynne McTaggart
Create image

“I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.”

GivingHumansMayHuman BeingsAnswersLibertySpeechArgumentClaimsAbsolutesBelieverDoctrineUrgesGrantsFreedom Of SpeechAbsolute Freedom
Book:Miscellany
Create image

“You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If you recognise this, you can resist the urge to buy into a rally and sell into a decline. It’s also helpful to remember the power of compounding. You don’t need to stretch for returns to grow your capital over the course of your life.”

IfsNeedsHumansRememberCoursesGrowsHuman BeingsReturnDisciplineSellsInstinctImpulseUrgesHelpfulDeclineTemperamentRecognise
Author:Irving Kahn
Create image

“For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory upon earth.”

MenHumansEarthDiesForceResponsibilityMoralTeachingVictoryMoralityMereIslamUrgesGrossDiscernmentEndeavourImmoralityPlatonicMoral Responsibility
Book:Islam at the Crossroads
Create image

“American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.”

IfsNeedsHumansGrowsCausesRealizingPleasureBrainComfortableShotsEmptyFundamentalsTerrorSatisfactionUrgesHousewifeFull PotentialNamelessSchizophrenicClinicals
Book:The Feminine Mystique
Create image