What Is It To Be Human Quotes

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.

Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system. And it's created the highest standard of living.

I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.

Fantasy and anger totally destroy the human body. Tolerance is the greatest human asset.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.

Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.

Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Atheism has no room for human rights.

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.