Humans Quotes
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I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.
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An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.
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Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.
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Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
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Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
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When the fire is over, always, in the ashes, our opportunities to repair, to move forward without vengeance being required - that's kind of the way us humans seem to live. We make massive mistakes. We do stupid things. We do things to survive. And then there's an opportunity to learn from them and move forward with grace. And forgiveness and that gracefulness are very connected.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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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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How can you help the human race progress?
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The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.
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I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
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I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.
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I've always played very human sort of characters.
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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
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Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose your words wisely.
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Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.
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Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book The Sixth Extinction is that we are unusual.
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This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.
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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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Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.
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Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.
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Sometimes I want to be human for you.
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The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
