Human Life Quotes

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.