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As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance. -- Henry Miller
All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician. -- Hermann Nothnagel
The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them. -- Noam Chomsky
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. -- Daniel Nathans
Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance. -- Max Weber
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. -- Herbert Read
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient. -- Mo Yan
Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things. -- David Deutsch
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. -- Edmund Husserl
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning. -- Carl Jung
Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance. -- Phil Klay
At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient. -- Gary Hamel
Significance is inherent in the human body. -- Julia Kristeva
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand. -- Jane Addams
Human life doesn't seem to have much significance, and I don't know why. -- Mpho Koaho
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life. -- Curt Sachs
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. -- Carl Jung
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. -- Charles Kingsley
I just love having little vocal snippets like laughs and coughs, not necessarily stuff that has huge significance, just little human qualities. -- Ryan Hemsworth
The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning. -- Carl Jung
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Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings. -- Kenneth Clark
[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say. -- Jonah Goldberg
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. -- H. P. Lovecraft
If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings. -- Paulo Freire
To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution. -- E. O. Wilson

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