Human Act Quotes

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. And so portraiture is a very human act.

But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?