Human Beings Quotes - Page 16

• Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Height, Way, Individual

  Richard M. Weaver (1966). “Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays”

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• All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Feet, May, Human Nature

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• If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Monk, Humans

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006). “How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Race, Appreciate

  "The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness". Book edited by Sidney Piburn. "Kindness and Compassion" p. 47, 1990.

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• Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

  Barbara Mertz

  Children, Privacy, Feels

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• Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kings, House, Gentleman

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• Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.

  Laura Riding

  Equality, Men, Relation

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• The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or ethnic, and the psychic, nature of human beings -- treat not of human things but mere things, things that make up the physical, or circumstantial, content of human life but are not of the stuff of humanity, have not the human essence in them.

  Laura Riding

  Essence, Psychics, Political

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• Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

  Merlin Mann

  Attention, Missions, Mission Statement

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• Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.

  Confucius

  Journey, People, Focus

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• So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Long, Sorrow, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.333, Routledge

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• All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Men, Voice

  "Breakfast Of Champions". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1973.

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• There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Animal, Finishing, Poison

  "Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss Remembered". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. November 3, 2009.

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• I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.

  Thomas Hirschhorn

  Art, Believe, Understanding

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• For Jesus, it is clear, poverty is not the problem; it is the solution. Until human beings learn to live in naked contact and direct simplicity and equality with each other, sharing all resources, there can be no solution to the misery of the human condition and no establishment of God's kingdom. Jesus' radical and paradoxical sense of who could and who could not enter the Kingdom is even more clearly illustrated by his famous praise of children.

  Andrew Harvey

  Jesus, Children, Simplicity

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• The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Commitment, Important

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• It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Burning, Waste, Ends

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• Gratitude, generosity and humility are inherent characteristics of one who is present. When you awaken, you will realize that everyone and everything has the same right to be here as you do. This includes every human Being, every tree Being, every flower Being, and every other kind of Being.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Gratitude, Flower, Humility

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• When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Machines, Television, Produce

  Mohsin Hamid (2015). “Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London”, p.62, Penguin

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• We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think about being different from them, about being Tibetan, Buddhist or even the Dalai Lama. I only think about being a human being. We all share the potential for positive and negative emotions, yet one of our special qualities is our human mind, our intelligence. If we use it well we'll be successful and happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Successful, Thinking

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• Once you develop confidence in your own ability, you'll be able to make a real contribution to creating a better world. Self-confidence is very important. Not in the sense of blind pride, but as a realistic awareness of what you can do. As human beings we can transform ourselves by our good qualities and reducing our faults. Our intelligence enables us to judge what is good from what is harmful.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Self Confidence, Pride

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• The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Kindness, Real, Compassion

  Eknath Easwaran (2012). “Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down”, p.128, Nilgiri Press

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• Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Heart, Suffering, Foundation

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• If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, Believe, Trying

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.323, Hoover Press

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• Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Men, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.429, Harvard University Press

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