To Be Human Quotes

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

I'm not a bona fide human being.

I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears.

...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.

Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

The perfect human being is uninteresting.

To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.