What Is It To Be Human Quotes

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

Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?

Scoundrels are always sociable.

I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

The salvation of the world lies in the human heart.

You can't make homes out of human beings.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

Music is part of being human.

I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

The human body has absolutely no requirement for animal flesh. Nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from Burger King because they couldn't get their Whopper in time.

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.

C++ is an insult to the human brain

Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.