Quotes on Human Beings

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment.

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.

And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.

A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

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

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.