I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.
Virginia Johnson

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.
Kurt Russell

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
Caprice Bourret

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
Harold Pinter

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
Walter Kaufmann

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.
Stephen Evans

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.
Robert Shea

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
Jane Rule

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
Doug Coupland

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
Doug Coupland

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!
Sheri S. Tepper

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
Doug Coupland

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Doug Coupland

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?
Paul Ricoeur

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
J. M. Coetzee

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
Walter Lang

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
Stanislav Grof

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.
Stanislav Grof

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
Paul Nurse