Philosophical involvement blinded me to authentic human fact.
It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.
It is so difficult to describe any human being.
In an infinite universe, there were too many things that escaped human understanding.
I wanted all human human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Human nature is a vast, dark forest.
Human nature is a vast impenetrable forest which no one can know in its entirety. Not even a mother knows her child’s deepest secrets.
Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again.
Frightful condition of the human race! there is no one of its joys that does not come from some species of ignorance.[Affreuse condition de l’homme! il n’y a pas un de ses bonheurs qui ne vienne d’une ignorance quelconque.]
While in the life of the human race the mythical is an early and primitive stage, in the life of the individual it is a late and mature one.
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.
