To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
Whatever subjectivity we are going to talk about is going to be in an intersubjectivity of human beings that have a certain nature and have certain needs to be met and have to figure out how exactly to do that.
It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.
Maybe that's what is means to be human. . . forever questioning our certainties.
The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.
Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.
There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.
[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.
Kids are always the only future the human race has.
Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!
The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.
Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the way in which a progressive might claim that empathy is a crucial aspect of any benign political system, and the way a conservative might argue that not only is it not necessary, but it might not even be all that helpful, in that regard.
Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.
