Being Human Quotes

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

Merely being human is morally significant.

I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.

I don't want to test that simple sense of being human. I don't want to transform it.

That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it's not about your gender; it's about us being human, being in this together.

There's no victory-condition for being human.

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

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —” “THEN — I — DON’T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!” Harry roared.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

When did we stop being people, being human?

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

Being human is overrated.

Sometimes being human sucks.

Having a persistent nature is part of being human. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of knowing another person, or loving them, or being their friend or enemy or rival.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

I'm obsessed with being human.

I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne!

It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.