Human being Quotes
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I don't care what anyone says. You have to wake up and say to yourself, 'I accept that I have diabetes, and I'm not going to let it run my entire life.' It's a fine line, a Catch-22, a balancing act. I work to enjoy my life like a regular human being and at the same time keep my blood sugar levels as decent as possible.
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So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
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'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice.
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Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.
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To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.
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Extremism catches hold when all hope is gone, when a human being has been stripped of everything except hatred.
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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Ultimately, I'm not doing that much. I'm only doing what a human being who feels wants to do - in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.
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I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.
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Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.
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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
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The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.
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Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.
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Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.
