Humanum Quotes & Sayings

You are what you practice most. — Richard Carlson

But one never knows how the dice will fall, and they are always cast before anyone even notices. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

An we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness an that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything. — Umberto Eco

Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity." — Kenny Smith

Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical. — Seneca.

[My] rheumatism has come in again"

Ivan, cynically, "The devil have rheumatism!"

"Why not, if I sometimes put on fleshly form? I put on fleshly form and I take the consequences. Satan sum et nihil humanum a me alienum puto."* — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Before Octavia was born, I used to think that love bore some relation to merit and to beauty, but now I saw that this was not so. — Margaret Drabble

Traveling by motor is just one situation after another ... No matter what happens, don't scream; a scream at the wrong moment has often been known to cause a stall. — Alice-Leone Moats

Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human. — Christopher Hitchens

I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship. — Daniel Radcliffe