What Is It To Be Human Quotes

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.

It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it's not about your gender; it's about us being human, being in this together.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.

Just when I think the human race has been lost to the "what about me" people. I see the best we have to offer helping others.

Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

My favorite procrastination is to make the choice to have valuable times with human beings that I care about instead of holing myself up alone to get my work done.

It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.

For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.

David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up and the next year we can be sharing a pint. We seem to often devolve into conflict no matter how much we evolve...

as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!

The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

The things that motivate human beings, they don't change, emotionally.

I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

All of us are beautiful people, but we walk around just being people. I wanted real human beings.

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.

Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

There's no victory-condition for being human.

In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

It is imperative to use forceful measures to force the regime to respect human rights.

As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.