What Is It To Be Human Quotes

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

Envy is human nature.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

[Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the human mind.

I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that human beings are bargaining chips.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.