What Is It To Be Human Quotes

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

Communal well-being is central to human life.

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind. Zen is writing a new program to run in the mind.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.

As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.

The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.

Being a good human being is good business.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

Everyone is born a genius.

Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection.

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The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings.

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.

I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.

What constitutes the authentic human being?

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].