Best 179 quotes in «human life quotes» category

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.

Communal well-being is central to human life.

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

Custom is the great guide to human 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 commences at the time of conception.

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.

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.

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 is fiction's only theme.

Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

...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.

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

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.

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?

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

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

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

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

It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.

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

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.