To Be Human Quotes
The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God.
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.
We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.
Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.
It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.
I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.
Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.
The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
