What Is It To Be Human Quotes

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.

As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.

Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.

I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards and human rights.

Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.

The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

And every human being is precious.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.

Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage.

As we, the world, and the way we live have become more complex, we've moved further away from living in alignment with our human spirit and with the earth.

There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.