Human Life Quotes - Page 22

• Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Men, Civilization

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Elderly, Unborn Child

  "Pope Francis, one year later -- calling us to a deeper faith" By Maureen M. Ferguson, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

  Olympia Brown

  Fate, Majority, Mold

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• We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Russia, Theme

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.10, Penguin

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• The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Meaningful, World, Richness

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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• There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

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• We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

  J. I. Packer

  Humans, Commandments

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person. Instead of thinking you are just a person, that appearance, you can awake to the power behind you, the safety within you, the source of inspiration and guidance at the heart of your human life. This enables you to be yourself even more so.

  Douglas Harding

  Being Yourself, Inspiration, Heart

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• The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Live Life, Tests

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.652, Discovery House

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• OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.

  Marjorie Dannenfelser

  Beautiful, Baby, Powerful

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• Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Energy

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• Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's.

  Murray Rothbard

  Opportunity, Equality, Men

  "Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition".

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• The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritual Marriage. This is not socially relative; it is eternal. And in it, the soul is spiritually impregnated by God, not vice versa. That is the ultimate reason why God must always be he to us, never she. Religion is essentially heterosexual and therefore fruitful.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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• What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

  Steve Hagen

  Fleeting, Lasts, Return

  Steve Hagen (2009). “Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs”, p.227, Zondervan

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• If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Real, Giving

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• Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Quality, Method, Dharma

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• True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Human Nature, Life And Change, Humans

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• The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Pain, Optimism

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 12 (1925)

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• The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.

  Simone Weil

  Morning, War, Eight

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• Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

  Simone Weil

  Sacrifice, Balance, Looks

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• Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

  Horace

  Sports, Fortune, Humans

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.

  George Wald

  Rest Of Life, Decision, Earth

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• The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

  Diane Duane

  Issues, Choices, Age

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• Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Live Life, Men, Self

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• Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Care, Life Is

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