What Is It To Be Human Quotes
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.
The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.
Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.
Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.
The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.
I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.
The tories major announcement was to scrap the human rights act, because and I quote 'people get very frustrated with human rights'.
I think that the needs in human life will change and grow and evolve. I do think that that the importance will always be grander than you would ever believe them to be.
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.
If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.
Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.
I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.
We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.