What Is It To Be Human Quotes

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

Human beings are confused, deluded and generally un-awakened. So as a person who seeks to increase their energy, you have to be very careful about who you have intimate contact with.

The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

Education is the single most important job of the human race.

That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

There are a lot of movies with vampires and monsters and super-great effects, but if there's no humor or human relations, I don't think it's ever worth seeing.

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.

To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

Human beings are not black and white.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

The novels that attract me most are those that create an illusion of transparency around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel, and perverse as possible.

My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.