The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
All of us can expect to live longer than any organization that we would work for. That continues apace. Human longevity is increasing; corporate longevity is decreasing.
My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Racists are deficient as human beings.
I'm not particularly interested in my phone. I'm interested in human contact. I think phones have created a certain social incapacity; it's made people socially deficient.
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
The kinds of stories I want to be a part of telling are about delving into what it is to be a human being.
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Regardless of their religious observance, citizens can and should unite around universal human rights and freedoms, and democratically oppose those who violate them.
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
