Beings Quotes

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.

I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.

All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.

I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

God has invited us, as mere human beings, to add to the beauty of his plan and creation

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

Without a vision human beings are nasty creatures.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.

Sometimes the humanrace is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squanderthem just because we are human beings. This is all about that.

We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we deny that, what is the cost? So I do think it's what binds us as human beings.

I don't think of myself as an American; I see myself as a human being.

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.

I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings

Our top priority is to relieve suffering of human beings.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

Work done by human beings for human beings.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.

We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.