Best 179 quotes in «human life quotes» category

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

Communal well-being is central to human life.

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.

Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

Human life commences at the time of conception.

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

Human life doesn't seem to have much significance, and I don't know why.

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

Human life is fiction's only theme.

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

Individuality is very important for a full human life.

Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

Israel is not dangerous on one hand, but on the other hand it is dangerous. Human life is just dangerous, in general.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?