In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
Emma Goldman

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
Franz Kafka

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz Kafka

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
Dean Koontz

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
Dean Koontz

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
Princess Diana

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
Martin Heidegger

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Pythagoras

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James

There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
Charles Baudelaire

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
Martin Heidegger

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
Martin Heidegger

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
Charles Horton Cooley