Quotes about Human

I still accept an imperative of knowledge, through which men may be influenced, but then it must come alive in me, and this is what I now recognize as the most important of all. This is what my soul thirsts for as the African deserts thirst for water. This is what I need to live, a completely human life and not merely one of knowledge

Only the Eternal is always appropriate and always present, is always true. Only the Eternal applies to each human being

I am by nature so polemically constituted that I only feel myself really in my element when I am surrounded by human mediocrity and paltriness.

To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

There are secrets that must be held close, and most of these have to do with the wounding of the human heart, for sorrow spoken aloud is sorrow lived through twice.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.