What Is It To Be Human Quotes
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.
I think the most terrifying things I've seen have been created by human beings in reality.
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.
Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.
To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation or amputation
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.
The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.
Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.
We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.
Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.
The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.
I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me
This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals
I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.
Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.