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“Neither are the humanistic scholars and artists of any great help these days. They used to be, and were supposed to be, as a group, carriers of and teachers of the eternal verities and the higher life. The goal of humanistic studies was defined as the perception and knowledge of the good, the beautiful, and the true. Such studies were expected to refine the discrimination between what is excellent and what is not (excellence generally being understood to be the true, the good, and the beautiful). They were supposed to inspire the student to the better life, to the higher life, to goodness and virtue. What was truly valuable, Matthew Arnold said, was 'the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world.' [...] No, it is quite clear from our experience of the last fifty years or so that the pre-1914 certainties of the humanists, of the artists, of the dramatists and poets, of the philosophers, of the critics, and of those who are generally inner-directed have given way to a chaos of relativism. No one of these people now knows how and what to choose, nor does he know how to defend and validate his choice.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“The person who hasn't conquered, withstood and overcome continues to feel doubtful that he could. This is true not only for external dangers; it holds also for the ability to control and to delay one's own impulses, and therefore to be unafraid of them.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“The desire to know and to understand are themselves conative, i.e., have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the "basic needs" we have already discussed.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Certainly a visitor from Mars descending upon a colony of birth-injured cripples, dwarfs and hunchbacks...could not deduce what they should have been. But then let us not study cripples, but the closest thing we can get to whole, healthy men. In them, we find qualitative differences, a different system of motivation, emotion, value, thinking and perceiving. In a certain sense, only the saints are mankind. All the rest are cripples.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Descriptively, we can see in each person his own (weak) tendencies to grow toward self-actualization; and also descriptively, we can see his various (weak) tendencies toward regressing (out of fear, hostility, or laziness). [...] if a person could himself see all the likely consequences of growth and all the likely consequences of coasting or of regression, and if he were allowed to choose between them, he would always (in principle, and under 'good conditions') choose the consequences of growth and reject the consequences of regression. That is, the more one knows of the actual consequences of growth-choices and regression-choices, the more attractive become the growth-choices to practically any human being. And these are the actual choices he is prone to make if conditions are good, i.e., if he is allowed truly free choice so that his organism can express its own nature.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“To sum it up, from this point of view, the two religions of mankind tend to be the peakers and the non-peakers, that is to say, those who have private, personal, transcendent, core-religious experiences easily and often and who accept them and make use of them, and, on the other hand, those who have never had them or who repress or suppress them and who, therefore, cannot make use of them for their personal therapy, personal growth, or personal fulfillment.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. The slightest observation, however, might satisfy him, that, in all the ordinary situations of human life, a well-disposed mind may be equally calm, equally cheerful, and equally contented. Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others: but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“to feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.”
Quote by -Aesop
“The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
You're not human. You're a being who is incapable of social intercourse. You're nothing but a creature, non-human and somehow strangely pathetic.
Quote by -Yukio Mishima
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
Quote by -Xenophon
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
Quote by -Wendell Berry
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
Quote by -Willa Cather
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Quote by -Willa Cather
It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.
Quote by -William Godwin
Perhaps the majority of human beings never think of standing by themselves, and choosing their own employments, till the sentence has been regularly promulgated to them, 'It is time for you to take care of yourself.'
Quote by -William Godwin
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
Quote by -William Gerald Golding
We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.
Quote by -Woody Harrelson
I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.
Quote by -Vanessa Hudgens
Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
Quote by -Virginia Satir
Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.
Quote by -Clifford Joseph Harris Jr
The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?
Quote by -Clifford Joseph Harris Jr
In the old law, God was praised both with musical instruments, and human voices. But the church does not use musical instruments to praise God, lest she should seem to judaize.
Quote by -Thomas Aquinas
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
Quote by -Thomas Mann
A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and his contemporaries
Quote by -Thomas Mann
My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night.
Quote by -Tom Cruise
You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
Quote by -Tom Stoppard
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
Quote by -Toni Morrison
As humans, we don't know what we should do. We don't have those instincts like God has given animals. We have to see to know where we are going. It is just a natural human emotion to look for people to emulate.
Quote by -Tony Dungy
My dear child," said Grandmother impatiently, "every human being has to make his own mistakes." She was very tired, and wanted to get home.
Quote by -Tove Jansson
Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
Quote by -Salman Rushdie