Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
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 do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.
Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
Human beings believe just as they breathe – in order to survive.
He can love the shapes of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.
Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human – they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it’s good here, it can be very good here.
Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.[Ser homem é ter dúvidas, e, mesmo assim, continuar em seu caminho.]
Before all else you are a wife and a mother.[Helmer]That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.[Nora][Helmer: Du er først og fremst hustru og moder. Nora: Det tror jeg ikke længere på. Jeg tror, at jeg er først og fremst et menneske.]
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.[Verkehr mit Menschen verführt zur Selbstbeobachtung.]
