What Is It To Be Human Quotes

extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

When did we stop being people, being human?

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

in the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for, do not substitute for, do not replace each other.

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

We don't want to be the same as men, merely equal as human beings.

As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.

I have work to do as a human being.

God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.

Part of what makes me love acting so much is, I love the mystery of the universe and the human experience, and storytelling is a great way to perform that, and that is always inspiring to me.

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.

The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.

I believe the human race is ready to make a quantum leap forward spiritually and morally.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.

Going to the movies still remains, arguably, amongst the best communal experiences that human beings can share.

Everyone interprets something in a different way, it's channelled through the human mind.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice