Human Life Quotes - Page 2

• The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

  Mortimer Adler

  Satisfaction, Kind, Ends

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1977). “Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their Education Beyond Schooling”, Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press

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• The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Art, Winning

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• The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of human life. Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights-for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination.

  Pope John Paul II

  Determination, Home, Reflection

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• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  Felix Adler

  Taken, Desire, Unrest

  "Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools: The Origins of Modern Educational Thought in America". Book by Allan Stanley Horlick, 1994.

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• In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

  Kofi Annan

  Believe, Race, Profound

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

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• Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

  Henry James

  Cat, Animal, Monkeys

  The Madonna of the Future vol. 1 (1879)

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• To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Life Changing, Buddhism

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• The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fall

  "Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics".

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• A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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  Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  "Henry James: A Life". Book by Leon Edel. Volume 5: "The Master 1901-1916", 1972.

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• [E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Reflection, Men, Mars

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• If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Making A Difference, Charity

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• The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mean, Winning, Men

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

  David O. McKay

  Soul, Secret, Important

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• On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

  Gautama Buddha

  Faith, Journey, Long

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• Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Waste, Too Short, Triviality

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.210, Penguin

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• Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Soul, Generations, Firsts

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• If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

  Alex Kozinski

  Watches, Should, Willing

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage, the African race, united under one federal government, will emerge not as just another world bloc to flaunt its wealth and strength, but as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Believe, Greatness, Race

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• For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.  As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.  That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.  When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.  We call this the moment of death.  That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

  Bill Viola

  Ocean, Moving, Water

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• The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Islands, Choices, Done

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• There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.

  Howard Lyman

  Animal, Irrelevance, Vegetarian Diet

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• Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material possessions. On the other hand, people who work hard and struggle and suffer much are the victims of greed and indifference, losers. This insane reversal of values presses heavily on the Black community. The causes originate from outside and are imposed by a system that ruthlessly seeks its own rewards, no matter what the cost in wrecked human lives.

  Huey Newton

  Good Life, Struggle, Hard Work

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