Human Quotes
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.
Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.
We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.
...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.
If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.
the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development
The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm.
The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
