What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

Shiny, let's be bad guys!

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

It's useless to lecture a human.

You are human and fallible.

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

It's shocking the things we call love.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.

No human creature can give orders to love.

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.

The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.

Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short, it's modern day slavery.

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights.

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.

The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.