Quotation Explorer - 'Human'

Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World. - Emery Allen

An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people’s intellect or wisdom at your own risk. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoléon Bonaparte

We need words from heaven. Too many words come from the human heart and not from heaven. God wants prophets who will bring words from heaven that will change things on earth. - Terry Collins

Fear the lion, fear the crocodile, but fear most the one that puts on the inevitable wear called the human flesh. - Auliq-Ice

...And while you are alive, there are situations that may crush your bones and body to take away your physical strength. Don't EVER let this world or ANYONE crush and take away the POWER of THE HUMAN SPIRIT we all possess. - Levon Peter Poe

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. - Thomas H. Huxley

True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that's not possible for you then at least love whoever you wants to but respect everyone. - Amit Kalantri

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. - Jane Austen

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. - John Ruskin

But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. - Kathryn Stockett

The resources of the human mind are unlimited. - Sunday Adelaja

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life."[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005] - Nelson Mandela

Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human. - Rebecca McKinsey

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. - Henry James

If and when our civilization comes to ruin, the destructive agent will be Science; man's knowledge of science, applied to warfare, meaning slaughter not only of human bodies, but of human institutions, of all we have created through the centuries. - Cicely Hamilton

*Forever* is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always. - Mark Twain

Cultures produce myths because they satisfy a deep-rooted human need: the need to make sense of life. Myths are appealing because they reduce the complexity of experience, by making things seem simple and absolute; myths define popular realities which are accepted readily, even uncritically. - Matthew Screech

The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name - Pope John Paul II

You never know when someone will come into your life and change things, for good or bad, let them in. They don’t have to always stay but, human interaction is the pinnacle of life’s lessons. - Ron Baratono

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. - Voltaire

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe. - Douglas Adams

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured. - Virchand Gandhi

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. - Albert Schweitzer

Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around. - Jonas Eriksson

Predict the predictable, it sounds something strange and difficult, but so far is stupid. To predict the predictable is the stupid thing ever done by human kind. - Deyth Banger

The image is one thing and the human being is another, it's very hard to live up to an image. - Elvis Presley

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. - Henry Ward Beecher

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. - James Thurber

The purpose of my work is not to educate people, rather it is to enrich human life with self-awareness. - Abhijit Naskar

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit. - Ashley Montagu

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. - Unknown

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. - Thomas Carlyle

The ones who take human circumstances too personally will eventually be left outside mercy - Prabhukrishna M

Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are. - Jean-François Manzoni

The universe is a life giving force that is part of us. It flows in harmony through us guiding our every step. It maintain the harmony and flow of life. It gives us the passion and the knowledge we need to live and be inspired by. Yet in return, it is inspired by the human spirit - Sameh Elsayed

Loneliness is the worst pain that human can go through specially the period time when technology that is design to keep people away from each other and that period is now (21-Century). - Nadair Desmar

Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human. - Leah C. Fowler

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express. - Brenda Ueland

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination. - Albert Einstein

A world where no animal is afraid of humans and no human is afraid of other humans will a place of infinite divinity! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Rather than being a human, be a humanitarian - Kowtham Kumar K

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute - Jalaluddin Rumi

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The beauty of the human race is not in its victory over evil, but the attempt. - Sarah Brownlee

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. - Aurobindo Sri

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being? - Matthieu Ricard

My goal is simple. It is to take the human civilization with me on the path of sweet general harmony. - Abhijit Naskar

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. - Anna Louise Strong

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. - Mark Twain

Religion is a natural phenomenon of the human mind, but today, in the hands of theoretical bloodsucking religious preachers it has become a lifeless mockery. Now is the time that you take back religion from those intellectual idiots and place it where it belongs, in the temple of your inner cosmos. - Abhijit Naskar

Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world. - Munia Khan

Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding. - Bill Bullard

[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories -- entering into their feelings, validating their experiences -- is the highest way of acknowledging their humanity, the sweetest form of usefulness. - William Deresiewicz

The fragility of human emotions are not to be trusted but to validate the necessity of Grace. - John Pauul Warren

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. - Jeremy Bentham

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done. - Mark Twain

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries. - Wisława Szymborska

The human resource is limited to the duration of his/ her lifespan, while time is unlimited. - Sunday Adelaja

I want to study human... madness... cruelty... agression... anger... craziness... and other features... I want to find how far can they get! - Deyth Banger

The purpose of every human life is to teach, through one's own method, the power of love. - Chriscinthia Blount

To me, the meaning of a human life is to be happy. It's to achieve happiness right now, it's to make sure you're happy in the future. And if some people on YouTube try to have a message to give people, I guess that mine is: do whatever you have to do to be happy. - Dan Howell

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer - John Keats

MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge. - Ambrose Bierce

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller

For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. - Gustave Flaubert

Pure love transcends us from human to divine. - Debasish Mridha

No human can be preceptor. Only God can be the preceptor. God is one. He is within this human body, and He teaches, guides the man from within. He shows His sportive forms through dreams. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

It's only human nature for dogs to chase motorbikes - Peter Tinniswood

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being. - Kittie Frantz

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. - Wendell Berry

Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the waysomeone falling down in the street is funny.I entered a revolving door and emergedas a human being. When you think of meis my face electronically blurred? - Jeffrey McDaniel

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all. - Vandana Shiva

When will we learn we are Human first, and that all other names are merely changes of clothing? - Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature. - Edith Wharton

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. - Scott Westerfeld

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part - Louis D. Brandeis

You are a human with one life and its up to you to make it the best life you can. - Dan Howell

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. - Albert Einstein

Placing religious beliefs above law is a great recipe for destruction of entire human race. - Ketan Waghmare

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human. - Ben Stein

True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential. - John Paul Warren

You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But no one ever takes into account what that means. - David Javerbaum

There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency is a normal occurrence, during the spiritual battle of forgiveness and justice. - Shannon L. Alder

Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life. - Abhijit Naskar

Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. - Saint Frances de Sales

Since the end of human action, as distinct from the end products of fabrication, can never be reliably predicted, the means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals. - Hannah Arendt

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. - Dalai Lama XIV

No human being, particularly a young, attractive woman, is so alone that there is no one to miss her when she disappears. - Maj Sjöwall

Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes. - Noam Chomsky

The modern virtues fail because they concern the outer self, the human facade, the part of ourselves the world sees most readily – while the classical virtues form an organizing framework for our inner selves… for our souls. - Jonathan V. Last

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race. - Alan Ayckbourn

To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful. - Robert M. Drake

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being. - Daisaku Ikeda

Human destiny depends on depth of education. - Debasish Mridha

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe

The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty. - Antoine Lavoisier

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. - Haile Selassie I

Showing your compassion to another human takes less energy than hating him. - Ben Midland

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. - Allen Ginsberg

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. - Mark Twain

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. - Thomas A. Edison

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt. - Nathaniel Branden

The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history. - Steven Magee

When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves. - Bryant McGill

Spend Night with Lonely Married Women is pleasure Moments of the life.Life for Fun, not waste it.Being Human and do social responsibilities - Lolly

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. - Charles Dickens

Harmony and Peace do not rise from any church, temple, mosque or synagogue. They can only rise from individual human conscience. - Abhijit Naskar

We now live in a world where murderers and terrorists can cause death and mayhem, and when the time is "right" for them, they convert to normal human values, and become a global icon and saint! - Tony Dovale

God designed life to be enjoyed by all, but human being turned things around and made it to be endured. - Bamigboye Olurotimi

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. - Steven Pinker

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. - Socrates

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you. - Flannery O'Connor

The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry. - Vironika Tugaleva

It's a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man's life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness. - John Steinbeck

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them. - Ralph G. Nichols

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism. - George Lakoff

Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being. - Claire Fontaine

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash. - Sigmund Freud

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents. - Eric Hoffer

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour. It is human at least, if not divine. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Human resources could be purchased and sold but not time. - Sunday Adelaja

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy. - Richard Francis Burton

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience. - Mother Teresa

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. - John F. Kennedy

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. - Frida Kahlo

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. - P.J. O'Rourke

Human behavior makes it hard to believe in human intelligence. - Marty Rubin

....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience. - Holly Lynn Payne

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. - Benjamin Franklin

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. - Meryl Streep

How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that oat bran is more natural to eat than chicken? - Valerie Martin

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us. - Anthony Esolen

A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. - Oscar Wilde

The things you have are a shared effort, Gods blessings and human strength. Give thanks for the blessings in all situations. - Unarine Ramaru

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? - Milan Kundera

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. - Thomas Elliot

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. - C.G. Jung

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them. - Walter Farley

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little. - Edith Hamilton

I Think The Fact That A Human Being Created "Dettol" ... A Product Which Protects You 99%You Should Learn That Nothing In This World Can Do It 100% Except God. - Cyc Jouzy

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will. - Joseph Stalin

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts. - Heywood Broun

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. - Aristotle

Human beings are not the central focus of the world. We may dominate the world, but just like all other creatures we have to fit in and struggle to survive. - Wendo L.

Actually he looks like a nice young man, and perhaps can't be blamed for his crass conception of women since all men think that way. I've met only one who appreciated me as a human being and even he didn't really. - Elin Wägner

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. - Edward Gibbon

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth. - Pope John Paul II

Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction. - Eric T. Benoit

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion - Steven Weinberg

Human is human. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The less human you feel, the more human you become. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Nothing else is needed to be a complete human being than to have been born a human being - Marty Rubin

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. - Jack Kerouac

Dou comigo a pensar se figuras de estilo não serão, afinal, as silhuetas dos corpos humanos que tão ardentemente desejamos ou abominamos.I find myself wondering if figures of speech are not, after all, the silhouettes of human bodies which we so ardently desire or abhor. - Victor Eustáquio

Religious unity does not come so easily. It is not a piece of pie, which you can buy in the shop. It takes sincere efforts from every single human being on this planet. - Abhijit Naskar

Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them, the rise of science. - Rodney Stark

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. - Augustine of Hippo

There is a greater power than human strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world - Munia Khan

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness. - Unknown or The Archictect from the Matrix reloaded movie

I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are. - Shailene Woodley

Zoo: An excellent lace to study the habits of human beings - Evan Esar

We must stop relying on our human strength, instead seek grace. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Human life has little meaning until we rediscover our wings and start flying. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa

No religion, No race, No countries, Today we are human. - Sixeye

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. - Leonardo da Vinci

What is man if the signs that predate him have such power? A human race has to invent sacrifices equal to the natural cataclysmic order that surrounds it. - Jean Baudrillard

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy. - Richard Yates

Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves. - John N. Gray

If you don't keep challenging your mind and your self, you're going to loose the ability to grow as a human being both physically and spiritually. - Lateef Abader

The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity. - Elizabeth Stone

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further. - Søren Kierkegaard

She starts to cry. 'It's just so terrible,' she says.'Which part?,' I ask.'Being human. - A.M. Homes

Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it. - Gary Hopkins

The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized. - Baha'i International Community

Moral stories are always imaginary , but these stories induce real moral values in a human society . - Usama Gondal

Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent in search for the truth and neglecting the physical living, is just that higher form of human existence. - Alija Izetbegović

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

When admiring human accomplishments we should not confusethe achievements of the few for the capacity of the many. - Geoffroy Birtz

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. - W. E. B. Du Bois

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. - John Foster Dulles

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. - Carl Jung

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention. - Kevin Kelly

To err is human, to purr is feline. - Robert Byrne

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity. - Françoise Mauriac

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. - Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Apart from technological aspects businesses should always have the human value. - Amitav Chowdhury

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred. - Walt Whitman

The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it. - Thiruman Archunan

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. - Orson Scott Card

We wait upon finite minds to validate infinite things— this is evidence of human stupidity. - C. JoyBell C.

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty. - Unknown

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. - Franklin P. Adams

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor. - Horace Mann

Human existence is partnered with spiritual laws; it’s the foundation of the human experienceWe all ultimately want a pain free existence, unfortunately circumstances of unrest bring to light the spiritual laws designed to play themselves out in the everyday experiences of the human race. - Brian Edward Arsenault

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. - H. L. Mencken

For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence. - Thomas Mann

Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth. - Laurie H. Hutzler

Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hears men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? - G.K. Chesterton

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. - Albert Camus

There's only about about 6 to 8 inches between an open book and a human being's heart. A lot can happen in those 7 inches. Perspectives, fresh perspectives occur and minds expand, and I love fiction and I feel like it's a possibility for transformation. - Aline Ohanesian

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. - Dante Alighieri

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

Make her smile, make her laugh and make her happy; because this is the only Truth, Meaning & Beauty act any human can ever achieve. - Sameh Elsayed

When hope turns dark, I will bring the sun to light it, I shall guide, protect thee, For I am the human spirit.Poem: God’s Dream, in ‘Chameleon Lights - Ayushman Jamwal

. . . human beings . . . [are] divided into "book benders" and "non-book benders." The former are happier. - Fausto Brizzi

When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature, that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling. - Leon Trotsky

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing. - Voltaire

Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future. - Joe Haldeman

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral. - Richard Levins

Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. - Eric Hoffer

Growth of human hair is the absolute blessing for a barber - Munia Khan

We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for human rights. - Ellen J. Barrier

Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. - Charles Bukowski

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state. - John Stuart Mill

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in the rubbish. - John Keats

I bet the human brain is a kludge. - Marvin Minsky

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. - Henry A. Wallace

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi

In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that my wandering soul needed to get back into its earthly habitat. - Janet Bettag

The leading research in the adverse human health effects of electromagnetic radiation is not being done by well funded governments or corporations, it is coming from a few self funded independent researchers. - Steven Magee

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. - Gore Vidal

Kindness should be a priority for every human being. - Debasish Mridha

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - Marilyn Ferguson

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations. - Kofi Annan

You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?""It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize.""Must be a human thing.""Exactly. - Christopher Moore

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

STORIES" it should not be the perfect,not be untold,not be romedy.. it should be the lesson to teach the human, whats the life is?? - Alisha mariam

The ability to love is the divine power of human. - Debasish Mridha

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood. - H. L. Mencken

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors. - Voltaire

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world. - The Dalai Lama

My imagination is my temple where I meditate and pray to change human consciousness and awareness so that I may find peace. - Debasish Mridha

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature. - Morrie Schwartz

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. - Alfred Hitchcock

Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species. - Abhijit Naskar

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic. - Terence McKenna

Fictional characters also evolve, the way human being do in real life. - Saumya Kaushik...

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. - Carl Jung

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' - Andre Gide

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. - Maria Edgeworth

I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero. - Amit Kalantri

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. - Abraham H. Maslow

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. - Blaise Pascal

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit - E.E. Cummings

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above. - Sri Chinmoy

When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies. - John Granger

Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can loveand who shall be continually reborn, a human being. - E.E. Cummings

GOD is super intelligent - says GO & DO GOOD things, if not I may pick you as an ODD human & like a honest DOG knows what to do next! - Ningraj

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites. - Philip Pullman

A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness. - Lisa Kogan

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God is all that exists. Every stone, flower, tree, animal and human being are on a spiritual journey to recognize their true self, their divine essence. - Swami Dhyan Giten

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers. - Ambrose Bierce

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect. - William Thayer Shedd

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends. - Immanuel Kant

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue. - Mahatma Gandhi

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. - Rollo May

The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. - Stephen R. Covey

Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest? - Randy Thornhorn

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. - Man Ray

Look at mirror! What do you see in you? Do you see someone who can't amount anything in life or do you see a unique human being that was born to dream and conquer the world. - Euginia Herlihy

Over-thinking, a devouring monster,entice, only the inky reflections;there's a pleasure you come by,from this anomalous encounter;kills your desire, for human affection. - Kashish Gurung

Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is. - Justin Cronin

Whatever they say about it, but being altruistic is not so simple for everyone. Not to look and sound like despotism, altruism must be learnt, and it’s a long way, which in fact begins from our egoism, for really, a human can’t love others if he doesn’t love himself first. - Lara Biyuts

And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (, June 10, 1963, American University speech) - John F. Kennedy

Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race. - Edward O. Sisson

For if you do not wish to be ‘just a number’ then do not measure yourself accordingly. Bank statements and scales are instruments employed by society that confine you to a limited summation of yourself – born is the human void. - Nicole Bonomi

The only way for God to conquer the world is through the human flesh and through His Spirit. - Sunday Adelaja

A child is reliving millions of years of Evolution from a single cell to a XXI Century Human. This is the most amazing miracle I've ever encountered, and I am truly grateful to the Nature for letting me perform it - for letting me create a new life called Emily. - Sophia Newtown

Maybe she loved me,maybe not –who knows?Not even the godscan see intoa human heart –it’s that dark. - Gregory Orr

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation. - Sam Harris

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. - Meryl Streep

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit. - Jewel

It is human nature to strive. - Temple Grandin

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. - George W. Bush

Religion without humanity is poor human stuff. - Sojourner Truth

There is no human mind. There is only a universal mind. We borrow it for the time being and try to shape it in our own way to make it unique. It is like owning a plot of land. We borrow it from nature and call it our land. We try to shape it, build on it, and cultivate it. - Debasish Mridha

Ethics are the moral compass of a human society that change and adjust over time. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing. - Joris-Karl Huysmans

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. - Scott F. Fitzgerald

An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not put into practice? The government says it cherishes the principles in the SA Constitution, and yet acts in a manner which cannot be reconciled with that very Constitution. - Christina Engela

Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars. - Gustave Flaubert

The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights. - Stefan Molyneux

People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make. - Eudora Welty

Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human. - Steven Magee

If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor. - Leo Tolstoy

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce. - Mark Twain

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. - Mary Shelley

It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot. - Robert E. Howard

Though it may be interesting to know how many hairs there are on the human head, or how the giant red spot on the surface of Jupiter was formed, the real truths we are interested in are those about ourselves. - Stephen Richards

Our souls speak a language that is beyond human understanding. A connection so rare the universe won't let us part. - Nikki Rowe

By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace 'chronological' time and our human condition can be called into question. This opens the door to a new challenge and a new future. ( "Svp "Arrêt sur image" ) - Erik Pevernagie

As a country we learn a lot about ability, but very little about human empathy. - Premchand Shetty

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. - Albert Camus

The human body is a tube and tank machine with an electrical system that is made up of trillions of cells and two fluids, which are designed to create and react to chemistry. While this machine can malfunction, malfunctions can be fixed. – - Kevin W. Reese

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all. - Jack Kerouac

It is not a god that makes us more human, it is we human that make Gods. - M.F. Moonzajer

We call on the international community to share equitably the responsibility for protecting, assisting and hosting refugees in accordance with principles of international solidarity and human rights. - Widad Akreyi

Death is beautiful, part of life... No, it is sad. It’s sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. So it’s really not that sad. - Harris Wittels

People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It's all fucking crap. We're all human beings, we're all mammals, we're all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a pain in the fucking arse. - Shane MacGowan

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. - Bette Davis

Only kind people seem really human. - Marty Rubin

Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it. - Joss Whedon

I love humanity, surprisingly, as I observe 21st century with hawk eyed vision, I realize the more I love humanity the less I love Human as an individual. - Ankita Singhal

When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light. - Christopher Earle

music is for most of the part,can become an ecstasy of the human mind. - J.T.Abraham

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. - Henry P. Fairchild

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish. - Ken Robinson

I am not the Messiah. I am a simple human being with the unlimited power of love and kindness. - Debasish Mridha

By a curious perversity, the human mind refuses to behave itself on the occasions when it should be intensely dramatic. It was so now; the climber suddenly forgot his fears in a smile. The choir had chosen this precise moment to start the Nunc Dimittis. - Whipplesnaith

I am only human, although I regret it. - Mark Twain

It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive. - Pema Chodron

...the power of grace can work great things in the human person, greater than we might have dared to hope...(pg.52 in The Examen Prayer). - Fr. Timothy Gallagher OMV

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. - Thomas Merton

There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you. - James Coburn

Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget that you are human. - Roy T. Bennett

Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all directions, but only at the price of rapidly and completely forgetting his human past at the same time? - Franz Kafka

Throughout her life, she held firm to her belief that even the smallest acts of kindness and generosity by the least of us can cause a ripple effect to change the world. , Human Again - Nina Wirk

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. - Malcolm Gladwell

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. - Eva Hoffman

When angels' tears do flood the earth, the gates of hell shall see rebirth. Wheh the demise of angels doth impend , the human boy shall meet his end' Halo - - Alexandra Adornetto

Every heart beats and radiates love every moment. Every human being desires your love every second. - Debasish Mridha

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. - King Whitney Jr.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good. - Zainab Salbi

No ideology is worth a Human life. - Adriano Bulla

Hitler is the human catch-all for all other terrible humans. - Chuck Klosterman

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.

Education is the key to progress and success for human beings and for a nation. - Debasish Mridha

Don't be discouraged when people leave your life because you can still fulfill your God given purpose without them. Remember that your destiny is not tied to any human being, but in line with God's purpose. - Gugu Mona

Staring at the blue sky causes insomnia to occur in the human. - Steven Magee

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry? - Anna Quindlen

As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of leaf matter and banana peel and egg shell and human hair and chicken bone and fireplace ash, so the accumulation of death in teh ground of a city implants therein energies and powers. - Tim Gilmore

If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before asking any service of them. Words are living things closely involved with human life. - Paul Nougé

Human kind is on one big power trip that is ripping the sole out of the subtleness and kindness of the human spirit - Aidan Donnelly

Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health and harmony. - F. David Peat

Any society that justifies violence against any human being for any reason will be a violent society. It will ultimately infect and affect the whole society. Everyone will suffer. - Debasish Mridha

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart. - Patricia Polacco

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy. - Dawn Powell

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. - Evan Esar

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. - Walt Kelly

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is now wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul. - Vincent van Gogh

I grew up in an era that was a golden age of the blockbuster, when something we might call a family film could have universal appeal. That's something I want to see again. In terms of the tone of the film, it looks at where we are as a people and has a universality about human experience. - Christopher J. Nolan

By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human stupidity.So, of course, it came out to meet him. - James S.A. Corey

The best friend you can have, is one who is there always for you.If lucky you have one or two human onces but even more the one between covers a book, which will never hurt,insult or betray you and always there for you to be. - Miroslava Rozman Novakovic

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly. - Criss Jami

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent. - Benjamin Zander

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self. - Kafka, Franz

The western average human lifespan is 2.5 billion seconds (or 77 years). Here are 2 time-dilating perception strategies to enhance one's allocated living time: 1.Make choices. 2.Focus on your best qualities. - Nodas

Maybe I did hurt him, but I don’t think I could have hurt him much. He was one of the best-protected human beings who ever lives. People couldn’t get at him because he just wasn’t interested in people. - Kurt Vonnegut

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. - Aldous Huxley

An open flask of industrial liquid gas that is venting into the indoor environment should be thought of as the same as a smoldering fire, as they both create a dangerous oxygen deficient environment for the human. - Steven Magee

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. - Arthur C. Clarke

There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it. - C. JoyBell C.

The history of human nature: How far can we get away with being complete and utter bastards, before we have to backtrack? - Paul MacAlindin

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself. - G.I. Gurdjieff

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. - Theodore Sturgeon

Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life. - Elizabeth Blackwell

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird. - Joe Rogan

It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist. - Nelson Rodrigues

I know when to be sexy. I know when to be smart. I know when to make you think I believe you. It's human nature to know these things. The only way you'll truly survive. - T.Taylor

The cost to reconnect animals to live in natural settings without human support is a debt that many animals in transition must honor with their lives. - Young Tim

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives. - Sri Madhava

What courage must a human possess to stand at ease and witness the birth of the sun. - Bo Bryan

Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be. - Shannon L. Alder

Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world. - Henry Clay

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. - Carl Sagan

Every human being begins and ends the same way, but how much they love the humanity distinguish him from others. - Debasish Mridha

As a sea level adapted human, I am more fearful about the radiation levels on top of high altitude mountains, mile high modern cities and inside jet aircraft than from nuclear reactors and bombs, as that is where I get the most radiation exposures in the modern world. - Steven Magee

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience,Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,A mechanised automaton. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

People can only be categorized into a good or bad person but not the human because being human is in itself a very coveted position which is not often possible to achieve by any individual. - Anuj Somany

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint. - Erich Fromm

The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day. - Abhijit Naskar

And this gray spirit yearning in desireTo follow knowledge like a sinking star,Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. - Alfred Tennyson

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. - Mary Daly

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. - Daniel Keyes

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? - Thomas Sowell

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of the body is spirit, and this is what makes the human being a person. - Pope Benedict XVI

Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in reality and the person is made whole. - Spider Webb

An extreme passion of any human being is to be unique - Kunal Jajal

Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine. - Swami Beyondananda

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be. - Robert Henri

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. - Zig Ziglar

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. - Aldous Huxley

The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis. - Lionel Suggs

Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind. - Kim J. Vicente

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel. - Ivan Turgenev

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her. - Daniel Nayeri

It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convinces ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it. - William Moyers

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark. - Raymond Carver

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. - Alfred North Whitehead

I am surely a creature. For what human has two hearts? But I have two hearts— one is always broken; the other is always whole. - C. JoyBell C.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. - Jane Austen

If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience. - John N. Gray

How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls? - M.F. Moonzajer

I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers. - Langston Hughes

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Younger

One of the only things more powerful than the human heart is the that it takes to heal one that has been broken - Tommy Cotton

Perversion is a sleeping monster; art is a fanning mistress. Art serves the perversion that is deep and often dormant within human beings. - Thiruman Archunan

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Many people over forty have at least one health condition that affects their ability to work a forty hour work week effectively. Human Resources (HR), doctors and governments have known this fact for decades. - Steven Magee

Young people: They care. They know that this is the world that they're going to grow up in, that they're going to spend the rest of their lives in. But, I think it's more idealistic than that. They actually believe that humanity, human species, has no right to destroy and despoil regardless. - David Attenborough

After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein.

Life itself is a frightening image for every human being.... being strong in life isn't easy. - Inuyasha

Success is a way of life with the sense of connection, compassion, and expansion of human life. - Debasish Mridha

Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place. - Duop Chak Wuol

Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Tomorrow is not a day. It's an attitude. It's a symbol of the human spirit's desire to keep getting better. It's that curious mind that asks 'what's next'?Tomorrow is not ushered in by the cock's crow. Tomorrow dawns when today is better than yesterday...when we create something new. - Sola Kosoko

For the next century, no elf is to be banished to the human world. No more Star Wars, no more Harry Potter, no more Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and no more body-doubling for Tom Cruise. Elves shouldn't be treated like shit. We're not Mexicans. - Adam Millard, the Human Santapede

Forms come and go. You, the quantum non-entity behind your human identity, comes nor goes. - Fakeer Ishavardas

if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. - Junot Díaz

What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul. - Karen Swallow Prior

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. - Maria Montessori

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. - Walter Lippmann

Death is the greatest goal of anyone. It is something no other living human can achieve - Davis Carlson

History, Geology, Psychology, Philosophy, Chemistry, Physics, Theology, Mathematics, Technology, Sociology, Biology, and the list goes on and on. If all this body of knowledge exist for human consumption, why would I specialize in only one field? - Allan Amanyire

We all intuitively know that a mother's love is crucial to the creation of a well-adjusted human and that we are all born with an instinctive expectation of receiving unconditionally selfless love from our mother. - Jeremy Griffith

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis. - Seneca

Curse it when it is there.Miss it when it is gone.Human being being human. - Anjali Prabodh

When a human being is born the first thing he does is crying.. The rest of his life he'll spend discovering why... - Erik Tanghe

The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind. - Aldo Leopold

Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both are still dangerous to this day - but human beings would not be human without them. - Isaac Asimov

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. - Graham Greene

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence. - William Burton Pope

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them. - Ashley Montagu

So in actual fact every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine Providence - Sunday Adelaja

The highest heaven is not in the sky, it is in the human mind. - Abhijit Naskar

The dependency of the human element on Planet Earth is a profoundly personal relationship with Nature’s Mom. - Wes Adamson

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. - George Washington

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. (...) However bad life may seem (...) While there’s life, there is hope. - Stephen Hawking

Come away,O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness. - William Shakespeare

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing. - Monica Fairview

When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change. - Leo Tolstoy

I walk this road of flames and danger alone. To see the ocean of dreams. And drink from its endless freedom that flows though or vein's to be someone much more than human. - sequence kye kenneth young

Its just human nature. People forget past and only care about their present and don't think what will happen in future... - Taimoor Madni

Love enters us like a vague ailment. Your head spins. Your underarms tingle. Love hurts and love has consequences: marriage, babies, separation, longing, human complications. - Chloe Thurlow

The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful so eat the damn red velvet cupcake! - Emma Stones

That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away. - Nick Hornby

Love is the greatest force to change human heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita

This human body is the perpetual home of God’, what does it mean? Where God is visualized – this body, not anywhere. So this human body is the perpetual home of God. What is happening for this reason? This human body is infinite and the world is also infinite. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. - Man Ray

History is a record of human nature in action. - James Carlos Blake

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. - H. P. Lovecraft

If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart. - Salman Rushdie

Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex. - Andrew Smith

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential as human beings by spending our lives serving others through mediums we are most passionate. - Chris Matakas

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. - George Santayana

Find me the perfect human being and I'll show you Jesus Christ. - J.R. Rim

Intelligence rarely trumps human nature. - Travis Luedke

There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage. - Kenan Malik

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. - Mel Brooks

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. - Alexander Hamilton

Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war. - Debasish Mridha

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. - Thomas Paine

... and for the first time he realized the pain inevitable in any human relationship - pain suffered and pain inflicted. How foolish we were to be afraid of loneliness. - Graham Greene

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones. - Ruth Hurmence Green

Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature. - Nocturnus Libertus

Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break....love did what hatred can not and never will. - Charles Martin

You are human, so stop acting as if though you are a sheep and start thinking for yourself. - Stephen Richards

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. - C.G. Jung

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out. - Charlotte Eriksson

Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion. - Richard Dawkins

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election. - Walt Whitman

We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the skies so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. - Johannes Kepler

As a human being, our abilities are unlimited. The only limitation is the mindset. - Debasish Mridha

It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss. - Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. - Stephen Hawking

It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species. - Doctor Who

The dynamics of human sinfulness and divine mercy and grace are the same for all of us, regardless of the particular temptations or weaknesses we face. - Wesley Hill

The example of Jesus Christ is the only perfect example that ever existed in human nature. It is therefore, a rule by which to try all other examples; and the dispositions, frames and practices of others, must be commended and followed no further than they were followers of Christ. - Jonathan Edwards

To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I am not me, I am not a human being.I am empty. Infinite emptiness dwells in me.I am the spirit.Emptiness is me. - Debasish Mridha

It is during a time of failure we bury a past and resurrect a future. Becoming righteous, discerning, and wise are our most prized possessions and across every cultures-this is the greatest feat of all human life. - Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility. - Beyers Naudé

Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination. - William E. Paden

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog. - Charles M. Schulz

The Devil's minions worked his treacherous plot through the hearts of men, possessing them, ruling them. These hounds of hell ran wild these days through their human hosts, working greater and greater abominations. - Eric J. Martindale

If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility. - Glenn Beck

I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected. - Benjamin Franklin

One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is. - Sunday Adelaja

Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist. - Lame Deer

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable. - Bill Clinton

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. - Plutarch

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. - Stebby Julionatan

Human history is a Gaian dream. - Terence McKenna

The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination. - Terence McKenna

The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness. - Aristotle

Your tears proves that you are an emotional human being; love, joy, sadness and misery touches you deeply. - Debasish Mridha

As a bird has the right to sing, so shall every human being have the right to think and express thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. - Mahatma Gandhi

What is the own self of God? Where is the existence of God? He is within a human body. If any man achieves the Godhood, then his form will be manifested within others and transform them into his own form in the spiritual world. And that transformation does not occur after death - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. - George Bernard Shaw

In some ways, art is the most terrifying of human inventions. It preserves the right to undermine all the categories. The history of art is the history of iconoclasm, the history of some new voice saying that everything you know is wrong. - Richard Powers

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering. - Epicurus

whenever a new thing is required for the world, then it is created spontaneously. This means a new thing is created within the body of a human body and the world gets the same thing.What is that new thing? It is the eternal question - who am I and what is the relation between the human race and me. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

With a little care for each other in the business world,we create a better one. A world in which human beings look after their fellow humans. - kamil Toume

An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you can cull an animal, or kill a human , and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal. - Fakeer Ishavardas

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. - Abraham Lincoln

If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African. - Abhijit Naskar

The human will to believe is inexhaustible - Thomas Nagel

I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia. - C.S. Lewis

The human spirit is like an elastic band. The more you stretch, the greater your capacity. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

You know well as I do that when we are talking on the human plane, questions of justice only arise when there is equal power to compel: in terms of practicality the dominant exact what they can and the weak concede what they must. (Said by Athenian envoy to the Melians) - Thucydides

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. - William James

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. - John Steinbeck

What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents. - Gwynne Dyer

Bad peoples often hunts past un-resolve haunted projection in other people's life and great peoples forgives haunted instinct nature of bad peoples let go and save the society but this war cycle will never ends. Human forgiveness will have limit. - Atif Iqbal Khan

Where the human knowledge ends, God's wisdom and power begins to manifest in abundance. - Gugu Mona

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

A human life is poetry written in our heart. - Debasish Mridha

The human carries the formation of the whole universe in him. The time, he begins to realize his own identity, slowly the nature of the universe is revealed to him. - Roshan Sharma

No one escapes some degree of chaos for it is so ever prevalent; it is the human experience. This realization does not mean we can’t improve. It does mean we can accept our state of chaos, lighten up on ourselves, have fun, and work on improving…we are a work in progress. Enjoy the journey. - David W. Earle

When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human. - Stephen Richards

We are the beauty of the worldenveloped within the confines of a human structure:created out of love to lovefor all of eternity. - J.D. Leisher

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit- a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor- that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A dynamic person can easily grow and become a civil human when they start to live independently. - Saaif Alam

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished. - Djuna Barnes

We are very simple human until we learn to use the power of our divine love. - Debasish Mridha

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. - Stephen Jay Gould