What Is It To Be Human Quotes

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.

As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.

A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

The human heart is my school.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

I love the majesty of human suffering.

Faith sees God's face in every human face.

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.