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Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression. -- Joseph Jarman
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. -- Ray Kurzweil
I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression. -- Bill Viola
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. -- D. H. Lawrence
A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression. -- John L. Phillips
Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression. -- Austin Grossman
You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song. -- Brian Wilson
Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class. -- Cornel West
Bruce Lee loved all different styles of martial arts. He believed that you shouldn't limit yourself to one style, because martial arts is just another form of human expression. -- Jake Shimabukuro
There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine. -- Karen Armstrong
There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual. -- John Towner Williams
We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all-that the wealth of individuals and of state is being diverted from the development and the progress of human expression and civilization. -- Margaret Sanger
From the Rabbis of the early Talmudic age I learned that there is never a last word on God. There's, you always continue to question. Even God himself could be questioned and you can keep arguing with one another and there will be no end to this conversation about the divine because no human expression of God can be ultimate. -- Karen Armstrong
Sex is probably one of the last forms of human expression to enjoy such a direct connection with nature. It might be the primary site of conflict between nature and culture. If one assumes that nature (or instinct) is repressed in a highly civilised society, then I think the conceptual dyad nature-culture is best preserved there, in the realm of sex. -- Thomas Koerfer
Disease is a vital expression of the human organism. -- Georg Groddeck
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. -- Vera Brittain
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. -- Jeffrey Tate
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. -- Taslima Nasrin
Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression. -- Lemn Sissay
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. -- Ai Weiwei
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. -- Georges Rouault
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression. -- E. W. Howe
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. -- Mo Yan
Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that. -- David Cronenberg
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. -- Billy Joel
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. -- Liu Xiaobo
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital. -- George Steiner
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known. -- Edward Sapir
Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature. -- Dale Carnegie
Art is the highest expression of the human spirit. -- Joyce Carol Oates
We are human in expression, but divine in creation and limitless in potentiality. -- Eric Butterworth
We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being. -- Oprah Winfrey
What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'. -- S. Janaki
Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul. -- Howard Pyle
Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human. -- Hillary Clinton
Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. -- Frank Gehry
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses. -- Albert Einstein
Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization. -- Igor Youskevitch
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable. -- James Thurber
Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. -- Liu Xiaobo
Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe. -- Eckhart Tolle
The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. -- Arthur Miller
When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made. -- Rudolf Steiner
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill. -- Sara Genn
Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression. -- Luiz Bolognesi
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the comtemplative reason, and the desire for aestetic perfection. -- Richard Courant
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. -- David Foster Wallace
A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings. -- Francis Henry Taylor
I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement. -- Isadora Duncan
But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multi-party democracy. -- Phil Robertson
Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity." -- Kenny Smith
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression . -- Thurgood Marshall
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. -- George Boole
I'm a human. When I got hit in front of people of course I was angry so that's why my expression was like that. -- Seungri
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression. -- Charles Taylor
Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate. -- Ann Demeulemeester
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. -- Friedrich Frobel
True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest. -- Asger Jorn
We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression. -- Gloria Steinem
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time. -- Margaret Atwood
PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions. -- Greg Graffin
Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. Humility moves a person away from human, personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength, and expansion. -- Donald Curtis
Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression. -- Jason Mraz
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality. -- Richard Wright
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature. -- Herman Melville
If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning. -- Harvey Milk
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive. -- Henri Matisse
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, itâ??s a human need. -- Ai Weiwei
A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling. -- John F. Carlson
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words! -- Vladimir Nabokov
No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality. -- Burnett Hillman Streeter

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