To Be Human Quotes
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about."
In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.
But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
I adore dogs to the extent I think they are much more important than human beings. I like your dog much more than I like you.
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.
To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.
Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.
Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.
Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.
In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.
In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.
You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.
I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.
You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.
The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order.
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me, they still feel part of the human race.
It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.
Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.