What Is It To Be Human Quotes
To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.
You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.
You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.
A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.
My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.
If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.
For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.
...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.
Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.
Rose was so full of life and passion that sometimes she seemed more human than I was.
It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.
He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
Human nature is the same in all professions.
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.
And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as. That was your nature, whether you liked it or not.
It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.
a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.
And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.
Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.
I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.