Human Beings Quotes
Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.
What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.
How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it
What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?
If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.
I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.
I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.
We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.
Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'
Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.
A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.
Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.
Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.
In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.
I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.
We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.
Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.
Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.