What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

All babies are Buddha babies.

The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.

Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Human beings really think about relativity. That's part of what the brain does.

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.

What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.

Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?

The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.

I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.

It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

We all, as human beings, have different layers, and if we become one-dimensional or really superficial, then I still think there are things that happened that got us to that place.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.

I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.

O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings than a bowl of fruit.