Best 192 quotes in «being human quotes» category

You feel the fragrance of goodness not only in the mere physical presence of a person, but also in the words he uses and the acts he performs. It all leaves you more perfumed.

You just go a little crazy, you know. Sometimes. And why? Well only because your soul is just too big for you, it flies away somehow.

You’re human, and sometimes the vagaries of life are just too delicious to ignore.

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.

Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.

Being human is overrated.

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

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

Don’t get addicted to being human. This is only temporary.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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'm obsessed with being human.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Merely being human is morally significant.

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

Music is part of being human.

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

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.

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

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.

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