Human Activity Quotes

• Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

  Plato

  Fitness, Workout, Exercise

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• The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Joy

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

  David Shields

  Thinking, Literature, Serious

  "'I hadn't yet found the form that released my best intelligence.' - Interview with David Shields". Interview with Hayden Bennett, logger.believermag.com. April 18, 2013.

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• I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

  Pope Francis

  Nature, Taken, Men

  "Pope Francis: Climate Change Is Real and Humans Are Causing It" by Jeremy Schulman, www.motherjones.com. January 15, 2015.

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• The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Voice, Community

  Bernie Sanders (2016). “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in”, p.103, Profile Books

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• I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

  Michael Longley

  People, Normal, Concern

  Michael Longley (1994). “Tuppenny stung: autobiographical chapters”

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• Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in America and around the world.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, America, Climate

  "Trump orders revival of Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines" by David Smith, Ashifa Kassam, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2017.

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• Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

  Lance Secretan

  Attitude, Heart, Routine

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• Climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.

  Julia Gillard

  Real, Energy, Climate

  "Australian prime minister lays out climate-change plan". www.cnn.com. July 23, 2010.

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• Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.

  Hugo Black

  Sex, People, Abuse

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• Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Commitment, Greed

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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• The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young--a human activity which developed late.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Achievement, Unjust

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Artist, Order, Enlightenment

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• Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a sultry Texas night before a huge crowd, with everyone feeling perfectly safe, is exactly what terrorists hate. Which is why it is so important to resume such athletic rituals - which symbolize stability, confidence and order - as soon as is reasonably possible.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Hate

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• Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Beautiful, Mean, Order

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• Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the balance...a particularly harsh jolt to polar bears.

  Andrew Revkin

  Summer, Balance, May

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• Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ... Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature's imagination is richer than ours.

  Freeman Dyson

  Nature, Art, Philosophy

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• The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities-perhaps the only one-in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there. In most other fields of human endeavour there is change, but rarely progress ... And in most fields we do not even know how to evaluate change.

  Karl Popper

  Dream, Mistake, Learning

  1960 Conjectures and Refutations (published1963), ch.10.

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• Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technology, Order, Civilization

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• Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Knowledge, Science, Generations

  Norriss S. Hetherington, Edwin Powell Hubble (1996). “Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts”

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• Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

  Paul Erdos

  Education, Science, Mathematics

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• Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Suffering, Guilt, Surrender

  Nathaniel Branden (2011). “How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence”, p.83, Bantam

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• There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE.

  Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

  Science, Differences, Bacteria

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• Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

  Spiro Kostof

  Architecture, Social, Theater

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• The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.

  Paul Sweezy

  Confidence, Meaningful, Integrity

  "The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas". Book by Robert W. McChesney, May 1, 2008.

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