What Is It To Be Human Quotes

I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.

I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life.

How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.

Deep human connection is ... the purpose and the result of a meaningful life - and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

Don’t get addicted to being human. This is only temporary.

It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.

The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.