Human Beings Quotes

Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

God made the world for the delight of human beings.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

Love is the only thing that counts. Love is what keeps the star and the human beings and the world turning around. Love is the force that binds the whole universe together.

Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

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.

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.