Zitat des Tages über Menschliche Handlungen / Human Actions:
'Tis human actions paint the chart of time.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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.
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.