Human Activity Quotes - Page 8

• No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Play, Luck

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Fog, Giving

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.101, Princeton University Press

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• In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Games, Cards

  On War Chapter 1, 21 (p. 86)

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• Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person who follows with trust and forgiveness what occurs to him, the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream. Working back and forth between experience and thought, writers have more than space and time can offer. They have the whole unexplored realm of human vision.

  William Stafford

  Dream, Writing, Space

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• Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world in combating climate change and transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and toward energy efficiency and sustainability.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, United States, Fuel

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• The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Lines, Psychological

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.105, e-artnow

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• I think it's part of my personality, to find sex really interesting. Not just in the puerile way of, "Oh I want to go and have some sex". It's fascinating, there's an entire realm of human activity that's important and literally vital to our survival and yet we've vilified it. That's one of the reasons that religious station is so fascinating to me.

  Brad Warner

  Religious, Sex, Thinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including that one. That's not self-defeating, though; it only induces an important kind of epistemic humility and a clearer view of what we do when we reason. We engage in one more fallible human activity among many.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Buddhist, Humility, Self

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order.

  Josef Muller-Brockmann

  Order, Growth, Quests

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• I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.

  Lisa Murkowski

  Believe, Climate, Agree

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it... And I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it - except, they will destroy our economy.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Law, Climate

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• [Donald] Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. CNN has a graphic up , "Trump: Some human activity linked to climate change."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cnn, Climate, Looks

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• "Some human activity linked to climate change." That bothers me much more than whether or not we're gonna be prosecuting Hillary [Clinton].

  Rush Limbaugh

  Climate, Clinton, Bother

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.

  Barney Frank

  Hurt, Government, People

  "CNN Newsroom" with Don Lemon, Kyra Phillips, transcripts.cnn.com. July 30, 2008.

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

  Spiro Kostof

  Architecture, Social, Theater

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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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• 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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• 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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