What Is It To Be Human Quotes

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope.

...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.

Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.

All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.

Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.

You go back and look at some of the ancient writings that exist throughout the world about wars and it's the same; the human beings' articulation of events is the same. That really fascinated me.

Human nature craves novelty.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race.

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.

There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.

The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.

My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

I seem to be less depressed but also less hopeful now in my thirties. My widow's peak bothers me. I think a lot about the end of the human race. And so on.

I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.

It’s a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.