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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Quote by Jacques-Yves Cousteau about earth, history, human imperfections

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Quote by Mel Brooks about opinion, writers, ability, talent, human imperfections, being, people

Hard conditions of life are indispensable for bringing out the best in human personality.

Quote by Alexis Carrel about personality, human imperfections, life

No human creature can give orders to love.

Quote by George Sand about love, human imperfections

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Quote by Georges Bataille about crime, criminals, secret, human imperfections, things

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Quote by Georges Bataille about conscience, morality, origin, light, use, human imperfections, good, good luck, life

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Quote by Walter Benjamin about knowledge, human imperfections

A human life is a schooling for eternity.

Quote by Gottfried Keller about life, eternity, human imperfections

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Quote by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela about liberty, sun, human imperfections

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Quote by Sidonie - Gabrielle Colette about childhood, happiness, human imperfections

The signs are nothing else than arbitrary stakes through which we human try to define ourselves based on our Logical Coefficient 2 and thus identify the world we are in and that we form, as we neither knew this world, nor would it exist, because...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about logic, world, astrology, human imperfections, nothing

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Quote by Jean Piaget about idea, knowledge, human imperfections

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about wife, despair, future, human imperfections, time

Good, morally speaking, is all that fits human nature.

Quote by Ioan Slavici about good, nature, human imperfections, good luck

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Quote by Bolesław Prus about people, sacrifice, self-control, nature, human imperfections

We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a handicap, but as a well intact human being.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about ability, people, need, human imperfections, being

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Quote by Martin Heidegger about people, being, human imperfections

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Quote by Levi Strauss about objects, human imperfections

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about love, human imperfections, being, contentment

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Quote by Hannah Arendt about death, unforeseen, end, human imperfections, things, life