What Is It To Be Human Quotes

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?

The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.

Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.

It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.

Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness

The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings.

It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.

The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.

Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and in doing so, they get all upset

Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things.

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.

Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.

Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.

There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems.

The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we'd live in a perfect world.

If you look deeply inside them you'll only see eternity; whereas with most human beings, when you look inside, you'll see all kinds of different things.

I photograph Nature, which includes human beings.

I'm a human being before anything else.

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.

Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings.

I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

Smiles, like humor, are the most serious and complex forms of communication used by human beings.

If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.

Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.