Be Human Quotes

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.

We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.

Ultimately we're all faced with the same things and that's what brings us together. It's just human nature to be terrified and that doesn't necessarily manifest itself in completely different ways.

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.

I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.

Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.

The human body is mostly blood and mystery and sadness.

The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good

human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

I think as human beings we contradict our feelings constantly, we make mistakes, but I think ultimately it comes down to actions to define how we feel about each other.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

I believe that American engagement, through our embassy, our businesses, and most of all through our people, is the best way to advance our interests and support for democracy and human rights.