Human Quotes

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth.

The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes his life activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

Nature is man's inorganic body - that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature - i.e., nature is his body - and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.

The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.