Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race
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Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
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To err is human to refrain from laughing, humane.
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The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
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The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.
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As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
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Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
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Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.
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The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought.
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There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.
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To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
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Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
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I bet you if I had met him Trotsky and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.
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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
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