What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Let's all help each other be a little bit better at being human beings.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.

We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.

Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

Your past is not your potential.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience.

There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.

What is Truth? Truth is the attribute of when the human heart marries the love of God, and the result is passion for your spiritual path.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

Jesus literally sliced through years of rabbinical law and cultural norms with the extreme love of God that sees the treasure in every human heart.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.