#human

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. ↗

— George Santayana

#denies #fashioned #gods #human #image

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#common #expression #form #freedom #human

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#alone #become #beings #expression #human

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#being #human #human being #must #nuisance

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made. ↗

— Tom Scholz

#america #animal #animal life #big #cheap

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#capable #concrete #devotes #enjoying #happiness

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#distrust #generally #greatest #human #human mind

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#human nature #nature #politeness #warmth #wax

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#bring #finer #human #human being #into

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional. ↗