Beings Quotes
I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.
How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it
The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'
Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.
Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.
The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.
Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.
Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.
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.
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.
I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.
If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.
Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.
Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.
Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.
A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.
Let's not forget that what is looking out of your eyes and hearing with your ears right now is already Spirit. And that Spirit, that I AMness, is always present in all sentient beings.
We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
We are Physical, Mental and Spiritual beings. If you don't deal with ALL OF LIFE you're not going to get all that life has to offer.
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.
Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.
Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.
When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.
I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human beings.
To embrace humanism is to embrace the concept that caring for our fellow human beings is our highest calling.