What Is It To Be Human Quotes

When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.

I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

Human beings understand too much.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening.

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.

I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.

Man is a degeneration of what he was.

The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible.

A man shall never be enriched by envy.

It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

I personally feel that people feel very reassured by nature because it makes us feel small and that's a good thing for human beings and for society.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

Love is the true condition of human life.

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.

The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.