What Is It To Be Human Quotes

I think that there is something in the human psyche, that when it approaches a big mark up point it tends to get doom laden.

No human beings are one-dimensional, and if they feel one-dimensional to you, it's because you don't know them.

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

People are human beings.If you are nice to me, than I am nice to you. I live by my mother's advice, which is that the Golden Rule is the way to go.

An angel is a nonphysical being who has no ego - so we know angels are not human. An angel is a pure essence of the Creator's desire to connect with human beings.

Cartoons are windows into the human condition.

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.

Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit.

I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.

Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.

I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.

Conservatives tend to believe there is a close and necessary connection between prosperity and freedom - that economic freedom is an essential part of human freedom.

The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.

I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.