T. E. Hulme Quotes

Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.

Every human being in the human form has limitations.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.

I'm ultimately drawn to film many kinds of stories if they are sort of about unlocking the secrets of our human potential.

I think that our personalities and our souls have so much - we're so much more than just blood vessels and bone and muscle.

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.

At its heart, 'South Park' has a touching faith in human beings: that despite their absurdities and flaws, people have the capacity to create a better world.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men, that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character... Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.

There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions.

The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

I think it'll take a while to adjust, but when you think about just the creativity of people and what they're capable of and the sort of aspirations and dreams that they have, the idea that they're not capable of anything more than sort of performing these automatable clerical tasks, I don't believe that for a second.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.