Human Life Quotes
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The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
Thomas Aquinas
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Just as, when a cow to be slaughtered is led to the shambles, whenever she lifts a leg she will be closer to slaughter, closer to death; even so, brahmins, is human life like cattle doomed to slaughter; it is short, limited, and brief. It is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
Gautama Buddha
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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
William Blake
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I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.
Soren Kierkegaard
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One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.
Michael Gurian
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The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.
Adolf Hitler
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So much of human life is animal life: we respond to each other as animals.
Brian Morton
