The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.
Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.
Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the philosophy can use to meet their goals and design a world in which human needs are met while enhancing the health of this miraculous planet that supports us.
And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.
THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military bomb disposal team, recounts his deployment to Iraq with unflinching candor, and in the process exposes crucial truths not only about this particular conflict, but also about war throughout history. Castner's memoir brings to mind Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front.
I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?
He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.
The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.
This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.
All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.
This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.
All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.