Quotes on Humans

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most valuable asset. My own instincts have repeatedly guided me against the grain of logic and probability. When I have trusted and followed their direction, they have never been wrong. I don't know how or why. But I know that every significant experience-positive or negative-sharpens them and makes them more accurate.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?