Human Quotes

Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited.

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.

Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

A human being can stand any amount of pain.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.

Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And because we have fear, we fail to fulfill and realize our potential as human beings.

Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.

Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit.

Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.

Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.

There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and a flow and an organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements.

Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.

You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed.

Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.

Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.

There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.

We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.

Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.