To Be Human Quotes
Joy is the state of the human soul who is not identified with the personality. Happiness is a state of the soul who is identified with the personality and enjoys the life in the personality.
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.
The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that.
One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.
Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.
To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice... practice... practice.
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.
Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being; it's me!'
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.
Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.
Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!