What Is It To Be Human Quotes

The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one's being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.

The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very "pain of God".

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country

The problem with human beings is that they can't sit alone in a room for more than an hour.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.

Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Human beings have enormous resilience.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

If we studied human beings which can include human genes, human blood samples, and human behavior, then you can leave the animals out of the labs and you can leave them off your plate.

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

The Human heart is an idol factory.

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.

I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.

Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.