What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.

If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.

I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection.

All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.

As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

The basic condition of human life is happiness.

If you are showing love to your fellow human beings, you are showing love to your God.

Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?

War is the most extraordinary, extreme human experience.

Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence?

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

Human beings all mimic each other.

If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes.

If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows.

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

All human beings hunger for appreciation.

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.

We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the most beautiful things we have.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.