Best 192 quotes in «being human quotes» category

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.

Being human is overrated.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm obsessed with 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.

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

Merely being human is morally significant.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Music is part of being human.

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

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

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.

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

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.