Best 192 quotes in «being human quotes» category

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

I'm obsessed with being human.

If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.

Let's all help each other be a little bit better at being human beings.

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

Merely being human is morally significant.

Music is part of being human.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

Part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again we’ll do it the right way.

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.

Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Sometimes being human sucks.

The essence of being human is being creative.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.

The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

There will be no more 'them and us', only us, sharing struggles and challenges as part of being human.