David Duchovny Quotes

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

The principles and passions of men are always the same and lead to the same result, varying only according to the circumstances in which they are placed.

Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.

To be human is to be in a story.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

I'm inconsistent because I'm human.

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

Love is the only human emotion that cannot be controlled.

Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

I think of myself as a human being.

The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

Footballers are no different from human beings.

We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

Every human being in the human form has limitations.

All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.

Scandal is only human.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

Human nature is disposed to do good.

Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.

Constructiveness is the human way.

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.