Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.
As a human, I’d say I’m pretty intermediate.
We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Nobody’s all good or bad, and nobody’s all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.
The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled – There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
Perhaps one reason we are fascinated by cats is because such a small animal can contain so much independence, dignity, and freedom of spirit. Unlike the dog, the cat’s personality is never bet on a human’s. He demands acceptance on his own terms.
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it’s drama, it’s the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.
I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we’ve seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka… and welcome to my chocolate factory.
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
The divine is God’s concern; the human, man’s. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is ‘mine,’ and it is not a general one, but is – ‘unique,’ as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
I’m fascinated by the idea that a human connection can be triggered through inanimate devices.
The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
There has to be a global mission of human progress.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
I have found little that is ‘good’ about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We’re designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.
When I say, ‘I stand for equal rights,’ I mean equal rights for all persons… from the moment of conception until natural death. I mean that I believe in the equal human dignity of all persons, no matter the ‘contribution’ they make to society.
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
Home – that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.
Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal – especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.
