What Is It To Be Human Quotes

It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.

The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?

Human rights for everybody, there is no difference. Live on! And be yourself!

If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.

Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring

During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.

Part of our job as human beings is to share our knowledge and share the things we've learned. So we can either save people from making the same mistakes, or give them hope.

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

The human spirit lies open to God alone, for it is a fathomless depth.

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me.

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.