Best 179 quotes in «human life quotes» category

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.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

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

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

Miracles do happen in every 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.

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.

Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.

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

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.

Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those who choose to be rationally self-interested thereby make the most of their life - and they are morally good because of it.

Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

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

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

The land is like poetry:   it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.