What Is It To Be Human Quotes

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.

If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.

No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.

Encouragement is like oxygen to the human spirit. Don't forget you're carrying someone else's air. Encourage them; help them breathe.

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

Scoundrels are always sociable.

The human condition: lost in thought.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

I bet the human brain is a kludge

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit.

Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life.

The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life.

No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.