What Is It To Be Human Quotes
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.
The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.
There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.
A mind to serve for the peace of all human beings in the world is needed in Aikido, and not the mind of one who wishes to be strong or who practices only to fell an opponent.
This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.
I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect.
In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.
Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.
You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.
The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .
We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.
Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.
I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.
I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
I don't get along with anything, I really don't...I'm, I'm, maybe I'm just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.
How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.
The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.
My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.
Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality.
Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?
