Quotes on Humans

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

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.

I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself.

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.