What Is It To Be Human Quotes

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

Human history is a Gaian dream.

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.

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

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.

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

I will always work for human rights for all people.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.

As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

Human life is beyond comprehension.