- Hang
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human Quotes
Being human is a work in progress.
These human quotes take a reflective turn, covering our capacity to change and adapt, the elusive search for real satisfaction beyond consumption, and a candid look at why relationships often fall short of what we hope for. For more, see our Human Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I was reliably informed that we'd have gone to Mars by 1985, and of course it's 2012, and we're still really no closer to a human expedition to Mars, but that shouldn't detract from the amazing achievements that are being done on a day-to-day basis by robotic envoys.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been skeptical of the idea that sentience is going to be an exclusively human attribute.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020