Reality has become much scarier than any, even tasteless, imagination. And it should be shown that way. The human soul is measured to its full extent, and such that the world did not even suspect. Books and films about our truth, about our people must crackle with horror, suffering, anger and the unheard-of power of the human spirit.
Of all human passions, ethical passion is the only worthy and true passion.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
A completely dead human soul, deprived of its natural work, is like muddy and stinking water, confined in a tight space.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
Evil comes from human stupidity.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
The cemetery is a mirror of human relationships.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
If the enemy's sons lived to empty pockets, then they start a panic among the people in order to profit from human good during the turbulent times.
The human soul is a cup of grief. When the cup is full, no matter how much you pour, it won't hold anymore.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
The human soul is the same, that of a Cossack and that of a woman: once you destroy it, you will not get another.
— Panteleimon Kulish
Teach to respect, honor and love the human individuality, educate young people to respect their elders, at least their own parents, and cemeteries will beautify themselves.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
If I, like some people, believed that the success and the future of the Christian Church was dependent upon human ability and power and organization, if I believed that organized campaigns and so on were really going to solve the problem, I would be entirely hopeless.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world … is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.
—Immanuel Kant
An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
—Plato
Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
—Immanuel Kant
A nation without statehood is a crippled human collective organism.
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wise and holy people, the teachers of humanity, simply manifest that which is common to all people. The light they emit is nothing more than the revelation of the power that’s hidden within every human being.
—Leo Tolstoy
Wise and holy people, the teachers of humanity, simply manifest that which is common to all people. The light they emit is nothing more than the revelation of the power that’s hidden within every human being.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every person must remember that political borders and the multitude of governmental authorities are human creations, and that before God we are all inhabitants of one and the same Earth and all subject to God’s law, not some human authority.
—Leo Tolstoy
All human tragedies are a result of human blindness, of man’s inability to see the God who lives within him and sees Him in all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
The majority of human actions aren’t a result of reason, or even of emotion, but of mindless imitation.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
—Thomas Aquinas
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
—George Orwell
The only good human being is a dead one.
—George Orwell
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
—George Orwell
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
—George Orwell