Humans Quotes
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I always felt sorry for humans, spending so much time in front of the mirror. Fixing their hair, makeup, and clothes, mostly to impress others. Did they really see themselves in the mirror? Was it what they wanted to see? Did it make them feel good or bad? And mostly I wondered if they based their self-image on their reflected one.
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The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.
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Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.
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I like the fact that Chris Rock is one of the best stand ups ever and still is a really good actor. And a great professional and a good friend and a wonderful human being.
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There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.
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...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.
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It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.
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Human reasoning can never answer the mysteries of our lives.
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Lines have to smile. There have to be life, blood and heart in things you let go. They have to be human, warm and alive
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Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.
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Humans - a renewable resource.
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Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.
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It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
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In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'
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We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.
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The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.
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We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do.
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My favorite single line from the Quran is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.
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Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.
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"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it has been in the province of religion and philosophy. Fifty or something years ago, however, it became part of science.
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Perhaps I am a foolish, fond old dragon who never learns from his own mistakes. But I have to believe that the humans and the dragons are capable of living together. I have to hope that the impossible can be possible. I have to trust in the boy and hope for the best...
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
