Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.
We’re just human beings. In the end, you do your job. I do my job in the best way I can.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don’t have all the answers to think that they do.
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It’s not negotiable.
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
I’m a human, and I’m multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I’d be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.
To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.
People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don’t understand. Internal is the human heart.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
It’s a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Human civilization has been changing the Earth’s environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
True navigation begins in the human heart. It’s the most important map of all.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That’s because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.
Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8×10 27 atoms.
What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents – then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I’m content.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.
People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.
Remember that I am a human.
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
