Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired.
The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.
It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.
Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.
Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?
What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do.
