#human

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#believing #cause #conceive #contradiction #development

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#being #fiction #human #human being

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#exploring #fiction #human #i #just

America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV. ↗

— John Walsh

#america #bring #humanity #i #i am

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#be nice #believe #better #better world #compassion

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#construct #destruction #efforts #human #noblest

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#being human #give #here #hope #human

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#character #complex #compromised #contradictions #contradictory

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. ↗

— Simone Weil

#equality #get #grace #himself #humanism

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. ↗

— Simone Weil

#barbarism #becomes #characteristic #circumstances #considered