As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
I'm a liberal arts comedian and the definition of liberal arts is all spheres of human knowledge, coexisting, mixing and influencing each other.
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
Human love and desire is my bag.
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
The march of the human mind is slow.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
There are some basic human needs that are the same. Everybody wants to succeed.
