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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. ~ Kurt Vonnegut #quote

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings” ~ Dave Barry #quote

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. ~ Cleveland Amory #quote

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. ~ Heinrich Heine #quote

To err is human, to purr is feline. ~ Robert Byrne #quote

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. ~ Kurt Vonnegut #quote

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. ~ W. Somerset Maugham #quote

...Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities. ~ Robert Anton Wilson #quote


Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God. ~ Jeff Valdez #quote

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. ~ Voltaire #quote

It's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart ~ Ulysses Everett McGill, O Brother Where Art Thou? #linesfrommovies

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. ~ George Eliot #quote

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.  ~ George Bernard Shaw #quote

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. ~ Carl Gustav Jung #quote
 
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. ~ William James #quote

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! ~ Ingrid Bergman #quote

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.  ~ Albert Einstein #quote

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.  ~ Eric Hoffer #quote

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless. ~ Audre Lorde #quote

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. ~ Hermann Hesse #quote

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. ~ Isaac Asimov #quote

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ~ Mark Twain #quote

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~ Harold Wilson #quote

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ~ Eleanor Roosevelt #quote

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. ~ Desmond Tutu #quote

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. ~ Immanuel Kant #quote
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. ~ Bill Nye #quote

The one thing that unites all human being...is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. ~ Dave Barry #quote

Man’s inhumanity to man / Makes countless thousands mourn. ~ Robert Burns #quote

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ~ Benjamin Disraeli #quote



The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious. ~ Simon Mawer #quote

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~ Herbert George Wells #quote

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. ~ Eldridge Cleaver #quote

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever. ~ Anna Lindh #quote

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ~ James Michener #quote

I had taught myself that a human[s] might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards & punishments that were fair ~ Kurt Vonnegut #quote

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. ~ Breyten Breytenbach #quote

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. ~ Eric Ambler #quote

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ~ Alfred Korzybski #quote

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ~ Evelyn Waugh #quote

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. ~ Freeman Dyson #quote

Problems only exist in the human mind. ~ Anthony de Mello #quote

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. ~ H. Allen Smith #quote

All of us are much more human than otherwise. ~ Harry Stack Sullivan #quote

Human nature is above all things lazy. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe #quote

The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound. ~ Anonymous #quote

Nothing will benefit human health & increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet ~ Einstein #quote

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. ~ Farmers' Almanac, 1978 #quote

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful. ~ Kurt Vonnegut #quote

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice. ~ John McCarthy #quote

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. ~ Rollo May #quote


To err is human - but it feels divine. ~ Mae West #quote

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race. ~ Mark Twain #quote

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world! ~ Albert Camus #quote

...all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone ~ Blaise Pascal #quote

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. ~ Sigmund Freud #quote

It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it. ~ John Steinbeck #quote

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. #quote

Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. ~ Eckhart Tolle #quote

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being. ~ Robert A. Heinlein #quote

After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?  ~ R. Brault #quote

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