Best 192 quotes in «being human quotes» category

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

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

Being human is overrated.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

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

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

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

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

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

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

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.

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

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

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm obsessed with being human.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Merely being human is morally significant.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Music is part of being human.

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

... 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.

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 being human is having a sense of humor.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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