What Is It To Be Human Quotes
The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.
When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice.
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.
I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
The object of pure Mathematic (is) that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
"Angelophany" is the visible or otherwise tangible manifestation of angels to human beings. Abraham Lincoln frequently mentioned that he was visited by angels at the White House.
And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.
The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.
But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.
In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.
There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.
At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
Primarily, Warsaw and Brussels share the central basic values of the EU: human dignity, democracy, and the religious freedom of every single human being. We believe in these values.
Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.
In human history who hold the reigns of political power, and there are some women who were very much a team player during their husband's oppressive regime.
Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.
Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.
I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.
People are afraid of change. We all are. Human beings are afraid of change, but change can be good.
Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.
Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.
Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.
A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.