Human Quotes
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
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One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
