What Is It To Be Human Quotes
It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.
Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly fails to recognize and reflect this.
We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.
Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.
God Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him.
How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!
I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.
the horse will always do right if he understands. This is very remarkable. It is true neither of human beings nor of dogs.
There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.
The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.
throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.
Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.
You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.
Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.
It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.
Anything that forces the human soul to scream out and fight really brings out the best in us, and to have an opportunity to portray characters like that is inspiring.
This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.
A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.
There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.
Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.
Having a persistent nature is part of being human. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of knowing another person, or loving them, or being their friend or enemy or rival.
There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to God. That message is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE.
Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.
You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.
To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.
I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.
Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.
These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.
In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.
Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.
A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.
Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.
If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position.