Sentence examples for human things from inspiring English sources

People do stupid, human things.

But they find most human things unacceptable.

"That's how human things happen," he said.

They were usually the least human things you could imagine.

"There are human things in this collection," Ms. Mandel said.

Strange and very human things happen in catastrophes.

Indeed, the tendency to humanize non-human things -- from cars to clouds to deities and bears -- seems to be second nature.

The TV comedy gold of Basil Fawlty thrashing his car for 'deliberately' breaking down on Gourmet Night is an illustration of our human tendency towards anthropomorphism - attributing human like characteristics to non-human things.

We are watching people perform super-human things and we hate the fact when people have cheated to do that".

For example, Aristotle (Politics, Bk. 1, Ch. 8) maintains that "nature has made all things specifically for the sake of man" and that the value of non-human things in nature is merely instrumental.

This is because some of the reasons that have been given for respecting persons have the logical consequence that non-human things warrant the same respect on the very same grounds as humans.