What Is It To Be Human Quotes

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Alaska is so unblemished. It really gives you a good look back at what the earth looks like without a lot human beings crawling all over it.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.

I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind, it is really to help, that is true solidarity.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria."

We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the basis for what I wanted to say about human beings.

If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.

All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.

Merely being human is morally significant.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.

I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.

Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.

Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.