Human Quotes
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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I claim credit for nothing. 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 player.
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Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
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Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
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You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.
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The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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Human beings are religious animals.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
