What Is It To Be Human Quotes

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.

That the man in question should be Donald Trump, with all his personal flaws, challenges the United States and the world as never before in human history.

The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.

Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.

Generally speaking, anything that the human mind can conceive can ultimately be produced.

In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience.

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential.

I think we need that to ground us as human beings. I would imagine after an extended amount of time, a vampire might stall a little bit.

The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence.

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

It doesn't matter where you come from or who you think you are, we're all human beings with beating hearts.

People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings.

It's human nature for people to expect people to be what they see on the screen.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.

The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

Each human spirit is immortalfor time cannot destroy

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

Human beings are fundamentally good.

I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.

Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.

I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

God is not free from human beings but for them.

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.