What Is It To Be Human Quotes
We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.
Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.
every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.
Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.
I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.
Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.
I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.
I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.
Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.
Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.
I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.
They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
Relax," Chiron told me. "Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history." "Relax," I said. "I'm very relaxed.
I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne!
Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose and a design for it and there is a result of that.
It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.
I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.
People forget that after we get to our hotel rooms at night, we take a shower, we watch TV, eat room service and do normal things. Behind our image, we are still human beings.
I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going.
Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.
Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.
The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.
There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race