Menschliche Handlungen / Human Actions Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Menschliche Handlungen / Human Actions:

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. Alexis de Tocqueville

'Tis human actions paint the chart of time.

James Montgomery

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Carl Sandburg

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

Adam Johnson

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

John Locke

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

W. H. Auden

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Thich Nhat Hanh

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Baruch Spinoza

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Baruch Spinoza

Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

Martin Rees