Human Quotes
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There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
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Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.
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Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.
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A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
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We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.
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For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.
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Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.
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If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
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Everyone has days when things can go wrong. That doesn't make you a bad pastry chef - that makes you human.
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Everyone can have a bad period in their life, but we are famous; we have a lot of things. Sometimes people think we are not human, with no feelings, with no problems.
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When human glory rises high As human glory can; When though the king is truly great, Still greater is the man.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.
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I WOULD LIKE, to begin with, to say that though parents, husbands, children, lovers and friends are all very well, they are not dogs. In my day and turn having been each of the above,—except that instead of husbands I was wives,—I know what I am talking about, and am well acquainted with the ups and downs, the daily ups and downs, the sometimes almost hourly ones in the thin-skinned, which seem inevitably to accompany human loves. Dogs are free from these fluctuations. Once they love, they love steadily, unchangingly, till their last breath. That is how I like to be loved. Therefore I will write of dogs.
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People have become educated but have yet to become human.
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We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
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There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.
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What do you know about love? Are your feelings more holy than mine? Am I exempt from the knowledge of love until I become “of age?” Do I automatically become human enough when I start loving you and seeing things your way?
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One of the greatest Roman poets was Ovid, an older contemporary of Jesus (his dates: 43 BCE–17 CE). His most famous work is his fifteen-volume Metamorphoses, which celebrates changes or transformations described in ancient mythology. Sometimes these changes involve gods who take on human form in order to interact, for a time, with mortals.
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When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.
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We are all dually feminine and masculine. To give in to both of those things would strengthen us as human beings and there is such a drastic difference between men, and men who are terrified of their own femininity.
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All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.
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If one is not a human being, what is one?
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As human beings we have a tendency to filter out information that does not match up with our preconceived beliefs, including the supremacy of our organization.
