Quotes on Humans

The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

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.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

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.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow. In the same way the shattering experiences of suffering can cause the living water to well up in a human heart.

Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet it must be worked at in an inward direction, not until a few have it all big and ready within them can it let itself be brought into the world.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process _x000D_ through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of judgment, and moral virtues-while at the same time conveying to them the spiritual heritage of the nation and the civilization in which they are involved.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos

Once you have met a true human being, _x000D_ Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART.