What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.

It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational.

Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.

The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

Only man makes Karma.

There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols.

Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

Body is the name of a series of changes.

Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.

It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.

It is the want that creates the body.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.

Man is the greatest being that ever can be.

Man is greater than the gods.

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.

The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. —Elana's father

[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions. I lock away the things that do not serve me.

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

People feel the need to choose sides when a relationship splits - it's human nature.

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.

[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he is out now with a wonderful new text; a memoir, in fact.

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.

Knowledge of every aspect of human life, physical and spiritual is plentiful today.

I believe every human life is a gift from God and we should cherish and protect and celebrate them.

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

The purpose of computers is human freedom.