What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

The righteousness of God's Kingdom is the product of God's reign in the human heart. God must reign in our lives now if we are to enter the Kingdom tomorrow.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

Anything that seriously disturbs human society is absolutely not allowed to exist.

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human beings.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights.

Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.