What Is It To Be Human Quotes

We human beings are a lot more resilient than we often realize. Resilient and perseverant.

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

We cannot guarantee the human rights of any oppressed group alone.

I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security.

With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.

So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.