What Is It To Be Human Quotes

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.

Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals.

The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Civilization itself is housed in the human being.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.

All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.