Humans Quotes
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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
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To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
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The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
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Why does gender appear in this primal scene of humans meeting their evolutionary successors, intelligent machines? What do gendered bodies have to do with the erasure of embodiment and the subsequent merging of machine and human intelligence in the figure of the cyborg?
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Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.
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Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.
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When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
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We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.
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I realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that we are connected and we are all still humans, and we are all still looking for the same sort of contentment in our life in one way or another. Some people are searching a little harder than others, granted. But we're not so different.
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The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.
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Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.
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One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.
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You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
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What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.
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Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly?
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.
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The human worker will go the way of the horse.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the course of creation's destiny. And in this we mere humans can take part-by fitting our civilization to the mountain.
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It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
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We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.
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I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.
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How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I ignore him? When I find a starving or naked man in the street, I cannot walk past him. I think no human being can do that.
