Famous Human Quotes
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Custom is the great guide to human life.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
To err is human to forgive, divine.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Love is a flame that burns bright even in the darkest of times, reminding us of the resilience of the human spirit.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
