What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.

Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.

Every human being has an impact on another.

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire.

Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.

Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.

The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life.

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

I want to be a good human being.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.