What Is It To Be Human Quotes
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.
It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.
I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.
The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.
If it is something that is right for human beings, then I don't care if other people criticize. You cannot please everyone in the world.
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.
I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and the gray areas of human behavior and existence.
As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.
It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.
Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.
Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.
The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.