Humans Quotes

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

Humans see what they want to see.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.

Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right.

God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.

All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

I do have my concerns for mankind as a species. Way I see it, humans are in transition. Accelerating at f**king light speed into some new insanity, and no one really knows how it's going to turn out.

Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.

Every human is like all other humans, some other humans, and no other human.

Your thoughts of God are too human

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

It is a human demolition derby!

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it’s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird

A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

You know, we're all human beings, and we're not made to be alone.

Music is a fundamental human right

Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven.

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

A human being can never be broken

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can’t have.

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

He who wins people, prospers; he who loses them, fails. Your present plan should be to seek humans of high aims and farseeing views, and you can establish yourself firmly.

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

Everything human is alien to me.