It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.
If we would learn what the human race really is, at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
I’ve shown women as they are, as divided human beings, and not as they ought to be.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.
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.
For that beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
