Human Being Quotes

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Simone Weil

Human, Whatever, Degrades

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Simone Weil

Great, Human, Him

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.
Dyan Cannon

Human, Become, Problems

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Bayard Rustin

Society, Human, Him

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
Lech Walesa

Change, Positive, Human

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
Will Durant

Life, Human, Him

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
William Osler

Men, Best, Truth

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Maria Montessori

Education, Teacher, Human

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
Ziggy Marley

Life, Peace, Good

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
William Lloyd Garrison

Human, Liberty, Put

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Morihei Ueshiba

Heart, Human, Fire

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
Charles Stanley

Hope, Human, Philosophy

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
Susan B. Anthony

Woman, Human, Destiny

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
David Herbert Lawrence

Human, Soul, Thinks

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
Doug Coupland

Human, Problem, Her

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
Theodor Adorno

Human, Imitation, Imitating

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
John Stuart Mill

Human, Made, Mechanical

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.
Alanis Morissette

Human, Rather, Body

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life, Human, Speak

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman

Time, Human, Meet

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene

Truth, Kindness, Human

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
Annie Lennox

Music, Gay, Human

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.
Norman Schwarzkopf

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton

Human, Hero, Decent

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

Time, Human, Same

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.
Robert Anton Wilson

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
Graham Nash

Life, Human, Keep

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
Cat Stevens

Best, Human, Fact

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden

Human, Games, Innocent

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
Ulysses S. Grant

Life, Trust, Long

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