Human being Quotes

• I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • I Believe
  • Satisfied
  • Rate

• Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Language
  • Existence
  • Human being

• I want to be remembered as a passionate professional and compassionate human being.

  

  Haley Strode
  • Human being

• When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Duty
  • Human being
  • Peace Of Mind

• It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Opinion
  • Human being
  • Socrates

• Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Human being
  • Fortunes
  • Human Destiny

• I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Imagination
  • Human being
  • Voice Inside

• Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Freedom
  • Purpose

• Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Earth
  • Jesus
  • Lies

• The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

  

  Plato
  • Love
  • Gods
  • Human being

• I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Human being
  • Arbitrary
  • Nearer

• Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a song of a human being which is produced in accordance with all the rules of music; for we very much sooner weary of the latter, if it is repeated often and at length. Here, however, we probably confuse our participation in the mirth of a little creature that we love, with the beauty of its song; for if this were exactly imitated by man (as sometimes the notes of the nightingale are) it would seem to our ear quite devoid of taste.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Human being
  • Song Of Birds
  • Musical Rule

• The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Human being
  • Defeat
  • Measure

• At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Jesus Christ
  • Vacuum

• Excellence in life seems to me to be the way in which each human being makes the most of the adventure of living and becomes most truly and deeply himself, fulfilling his own nature in the context of a good life with other people.

  

  Eda LeShan
  • Adventure
  • Excellence
  • Good Life

• People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • People
  • Atmosphere
  • Raised

• When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.

  

  Bernardino Ramazzini
  • Circumstances
  • Doctor
  • Working Class

• In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Health care
  • Human being
  • Ignoring

• Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Birth
  • Human being
  • Considered

• The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Sea
  • Influences
  • Governed

• There are some wonderful parts in the movie Loulou where Loulou used to be a dancer and a cabaret. To see her kind of be able to interact with another human being so isolated for so long, it's just neat to see that being played out and how fun and explore that.

  

  Boti Bliss
  • Movie
  • Explore
  • Dancer

• I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Problems
  • Human being
  • Flawed

• It started at one thirty on a cold Tuesday morning in January when Martin Turner, Street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo, tripped over a body in front of the West Portico of St. Paul's at Covent Garden. Martin, who was none too sober himself, at first thought the body was that of one of the many celebrants who had chosen the Piazza as a convenient outdoor toilet and dormitory. Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling. Martin, noting the good quality coat and shoes, had just pegged the body as a drunk when he noticed that it was in fact missing its head.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Missing
  • Wrestling
  • Head

• The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Universe
  • Human being
  • Capable

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