Quotes on Humans

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.

We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, firsthand foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort. And like us they express degrees of emotion. In short like us, they are alive.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human kind. He has shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late (British actor) Charlie Laughton, who said, 'When you got God, you got a friend and that friend is you.'

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny.

The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.

One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes.

Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.