Human Life Quotes - Page 16

• The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Nature, Heart, Self

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

  Thomas Hobbes

  Art, Nature, Spring

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.9, Broadview Press

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• If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

  David Hume

  Life, Death, Reflection

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.683, Delphi Classics

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• Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.

  David Hume

  Past, Experience, Principles

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.29, Hackett Publishing

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• [The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse, all action would immediately cease, and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an end to their miserable existence.

  David Hume

  Men, Principles, Action

  David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.162

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• ... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fiction, Mystery, Concern

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.176, Macmillan

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• It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.

  Louise Bogan

  Life, Writing, Poetry

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• ...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Life, Moving, Abiding

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.153, 谷月社

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• There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Government, Idols, Secret

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• Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.

  Stefan Zweig

  Psychology, Understanding, Intellectual

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• Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Doe

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• The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

  John Hickenlooper

  Football, Issues, Justice

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• It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.

  Philippe Aries

  Childhood, Age, Division

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?

  Oswald Chambers

  Son, Bethlehem, Humans

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.83, Discovery House

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• Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Vitality, Making Money, Deprivation

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• There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Travel, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.103, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." I draw near to him at such a time. Yet he taught mankind but imperfectly how to live; his thoughts were all directed toward another world. There is another kind of success than his. Even here we have a sort of living to get, and must buffet it somewhat longer. There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Jesus, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.491, Simon and Schuster

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• This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Modern Library

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• Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

  Joseph Stalin

  Citizens, Treasure, States

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• The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Afternoon, Significance

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.112, Psychology Press

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• All children should be welcomed into the world and protected by the law. As President, I would immediately repeal President Clinton's five executive orders that promote abortion. I support a human life bill that defines unborn children as persons under the 14th Amendment. I will vigorously defend the pro-life plank in the Republican platform.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Order, Law

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• The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Law, Differences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.153

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• In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.

  James Van Allen

  Motivation, Adventure, Commitment

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• Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Keys, Giving, Key To Success

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• Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Home, Tree

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