Quotes on Humans

Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that - infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.

I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.