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A composer knows that music is written by human beings...

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

Quote by Hanns Eisler about music, human imperfections, life

Human nature doesn't include all human beings, there are...

Human nature doesn't include all human beings, there are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about nature, human imperfections, politics, religion

Human beings must be known to be loved, but Divine beings...

Human beings must be known to be loved, but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about love, human imperfections

We, people, are dual beings, and our world is a world of Life and Death, of Good and Evil, etc. If we weren’t dual beings and we were thinking based on a Logic Coefficient higher than two, let’s admit it would be five, then, beside Life and Death,...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about good, death, character, world, life, logic, thinking, good luck, people

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all...

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Quote by Jack Kerouac about people, dream, human imperfections

The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing-by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about literature, concentration, human imperfections, power, things

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Quote by Douglas Adams about ability, experience, human imperfections

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, ...

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about children

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Quote by Bette Davis about sex, joke, human imperfections, god

I will fight for my children on any level so they can...

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Quote by Princess Diana about fight, children, public, human imperfections

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about god, fire, fire brigade, truth, life

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Quote by William Godwin about gifts, earth, reason, man

The great model of the affection of love in human beings...

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Quote by William Godwin about affection, parents, children, human imperfections, love

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but...

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Quote by Jim Fowler about human imperfections

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

Quote by Dustin Hoffman about depression, boredom, human imperfections

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Quote by Billy Joel about need, human imperfections, love, people

Association with human beings lures one into...

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Quote by Franz Kafka about self-control, human imperfections

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for...

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Quote by Aldous Huxley about people, infinite, human imperfections, things

I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.

Quote by Dick Van Patten about people, animals, affection, human imperfections, love

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, ...

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

Quote by James Cash Penney about morality, world

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