Being Human Quotes - Page 2

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

Let's all help each other be a little bit better at being human beings.

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

Without emotion, what's the point of being human?

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.