Beings Quotes
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.
Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.
No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.
Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.
Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.
The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.
From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness.
Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human beings of equal complexity.
The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.
My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?
If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?
It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.
Some males are intelligent, some are dumb. Some females are intelligent, some are dumb. We're all human beings, no one is superior.
historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.
However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.
I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.
So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.
The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.
I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.
I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.
There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.
In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.
Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.
True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.
Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.