Humans Quotes - Page 53

Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

I'm obsessed with being human.

I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human.

Human nature is fond of novelty.

Never underestimate human stupidity.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.

Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Let us be sad; it is feeling that makes us human.

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.

Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.