What Is It To Be Human Quotes
With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
When riding, ask yourself what will my horse get out of it if I get what I want? Many times, human nature is to take and to not give anything back.
Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.
So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.
Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?
We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.
Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.
Our true worth doesn't come from the work we do, it comes from who we are as human beings.
Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.
Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.
I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.
Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.
If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
.. if all the information of the cosmos flows through our pores at every moment, then our current notion of our human potential is only a glimmer of what it should be.
Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.
One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.
There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
