What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.

One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet.

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.

As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time.

To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

How can you help the human race progress?

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

All human behavior is either an act of love or a cry for love.

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings.

Movements are powerful forces of human nature. But fashion has never been egalitarian. There needs to be a balance between aspiration and accessibility, curation and community.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

There’s no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.