Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

I find human beings to be so complex and full of beauty. Creativity is our way to express and challenge and flow. So, all you humans, create and flow! I'll be over here thinking you are beautiful and creepy and freaky and wonderful!

You come to realize people are not simple.

The nature of man is intricate. The objects of society are of the greatest complexity and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature or to the quality of his affairs.

Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.

Humans are complex, and I think in entertainment in general, it's very easy to put people in boxes.

There is always a human being behind the titles and the status.

I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we've had and lived.

I am like any other human being; I am full of different sides.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.

I'm not the dude with the message. I'm a human being with different sides, different shades and different emotions, different feelings.

Humans are the most complicated, nuanced things that exist. We can't be reduced to labels or summed up with five traits - even if they are the Big Five.

Every human being is different.

A human being has a lot of sides, like a kind of diversity, so it's like a good side, a bad side, a crazy side, a normal side, like a man-ish side, a woman-ish side.

Individuals are complex and deserve to be recognized as such.

It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.

Many of the people I know and that you know are very complex human beings, and it's not all about race. Everything isn't a question of race. Everything isn't a question of economics at the very base level.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.