Human Quotes

Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.

~ Joan Jett

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

~ B. R. Hayden

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.

~ Michio Kaku

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

~ Mercedes Mccambridge

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

~ Simone Weil

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

~ Thomas Malthus

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

~ George Orwell

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

~ Samuel Johnson

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

~ Thomas Huxley

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

~ Theodore Bikel

In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.

~ Fatema Mernissi

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

~ Lawrence Durrell

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

~ Herbert Spencer

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

~ Klaus Schulze

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

~ Sarah Mclachlan

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

~ Robert Mugabe

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

~ Maria Edgeworth

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.

~ Peter Senge

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

~ Thomas Carlyle

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

~ Samuel Adams

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

~ Graham Greene

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

~ Bertrand Russell

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

~ Glenn Gould

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

~ Heinrich Mann

There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.

~ Gray Scott

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

~ Robert Pinsky

Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

~ Ray Kurzweil

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

~ Stephen Hawking

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

~ James Joseph Sylvester

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

~ Sebastian Thrun