Being Human Quotes - Page 12

• The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth. On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is.

  Richard Lewontin

  Hands, Issues, People

  "Sex, Lies, and Social Science". The New York Review of Books, www.nybooks.com. April 20, 1995.

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• People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost.

  Michael Pollan

  Nature, People, Joy

  Michael Pollan (2013). “A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder”, p.196, Random House

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• All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

  Salman Khan

  Fashion, Simple, Jeans

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• He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can.

  Bob Marley

  Mistake, I Love Him, Thinking

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• Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 17, 2017

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• The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity; and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity.

  Carl Schmitt

  War, Expression, Humanity

  Carl Schmitt (2008). “The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

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• The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

  Wright Morris

  Imagination, Choices, Becoming

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• 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.

  Anatole Broyard

  Epic, Stories, Ends

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• Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.

  Jerry Saltz

  Teacher, Art, School

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• Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

  Rich Mullins

  Art, Taste, Humans

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• The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

  Charlie Munger

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Helping Others

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• Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.

  Carl Safina

  Children, Compassion, Justice

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• Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

  Sam Keen

  Practice, Anxiety, Fearless

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• Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

  Richard Flanagan

  Art, Men, Giving

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• Seeing yourself reflected on screen is a very important part of being human. It makes us feel less alone, it make us feel more connected to humanity. Women, gay men, and trans people for a long time have not seen themselves represented, so being able to show the complexities that we all have - just as complex stories as a heterosexual white male - is crucial for us to feel more human and have other people see us as human beings.

  Marielle Heller

  Gay, Men, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

  Rose McGowan

  Just Being, Humans, Prize

  Source: collider.com

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• We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Education, Children, Organization

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• You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, School, Asking

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• Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.

  Jet Black

  Desire, Bebop, Faces

  "Fictional character: Jet Black". "Cowboy Bebop", www.imdb.com. 1998 - 2003.

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• I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

  Tony Abbott

  Kids, Thinking, Wife

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Needs, Tools, Up To You

  Cherie Carter Scott (2004). “If Life Is a Game...These Are The Stories: Trur Stories by Real People Around the World About Being Human”, p.171, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Spiritual, Fall, Adversity

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• Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

  Marilyn Monroe

  Creativity, Sadness, Sick

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• There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Landscape Garden”, p.9, Booklassic

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