What Is It To Be Human Quotes
You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.
A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.
If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.
I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.
Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people.
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.
The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.
I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.
Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems
Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.
You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.
We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.
Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'
To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.
The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.
It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.