What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

Should not the role of design be to reconnect human beings with their space on their land?

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.

This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

.....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.

If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.