What Is It To Be Human Quotes

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

By His Resurrection, Christ conquered sin and death, destroyed Satan's dark kingdom, freed the enslaved human race and broke the seal on the greatest mysteries of God and man.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?

What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

Electing Sudan to the UN body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

We are not only celebrating International Yoga day, we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, Sadbhavana.

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.

The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.

I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings.

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

The forces which move the cosmos are not different from those which move the human soul.

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.