Human Beings Quotes - Page 27

• I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.

  Bernie Siegel

  Pain, Animal, Hands

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• I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to make it. It's very difficult to be a nun, or to live a religious life. It's very difficult to live a life of total celibacy or a life without any possessions or material responsibilities at all, or in total obedience to somebody else, and remain a mature whole human being, and I knew that I wasn't going to be one of those.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Responsibility, Mature

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became Homo sapiens. Sapiens became a human being, our minds very naturally segue into transcendence.

  Karen Armstrong

  Discipline, Humanity, Mind

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind and make you realize that will make you realize and help you to seguey into transcendence and perform certain acts, adopt a certain lifestyle, you develop new capacities of mind and heart, just like the dancer, or the athlete that make you into a whole human being and principle after one of these disciplines right across the board in all of the faiths is compassion, the ability to feel with the other person.

  Karen Armstrong

  Athlete, Heart, Compassion

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• If I was being perfectly honest, which I'm not going to be, I think the movie touches on a lot of things that we all went through... the first kiss, which was more than a first kiss for Harry [Eden], and those electrifying moments when you're a teenager that form who you are as a human being. I think those, for me, are what Baillie captured so well.

  Daniel Craig

  Teenager, Kissing, Thinking

  "Flashbacks Of A Fool - Daniel Craig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  House, Passing Away, Meat

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.475, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to overcome it and pass beyond it. Not the wretchedest human being but has his share in the creative energy that builds the world. We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials.

  John Cowper Powys

  Men, Creative, Overcoming

  "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys (p. 222), 1929.

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• Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That's an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?

  David Attenborough

  Running, Clever, Numbers

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• Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

  Carl Sagan

  Comfort, Cosmos, Fleeting

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.361, Ballantine Books

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• I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Taken, Men, Thinking

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• Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha.

  Zenkei Shibayama

  Self, New Life, Realization

  Zenkei Shibayama (2012). “A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays”, p.19, Tuttle Publishing

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• All human beings hunger for appreciation.

  David Dunn

  Appreciation, Hunger, Humans

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• The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

  Peter Robinson

  Age, Extravagance, Levels

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• As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Able, Helping

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• The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Men, Savages

  'Love and Mr Lewisham' (1900) ch. 23

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• You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Years, Numbers

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4122, Delphi Classics

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• Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.

  Fred Rogers

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

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• Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

  W. H. Auden

  Mad, Acting, Actors

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• Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities.

  Peter Senge

  Reality, Creating, People

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• I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill.
  I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger.
  I have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen.
  Not really. Even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being.
  Never this broken.

  Suheir Hammad

  Gun, Order, Broken

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• Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

  Celedonio Romero

  Spiritual, Language, Music Is

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• The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever-greater obstacles in the way of co-operation among human beings.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Men, Political, Way

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.2, AK Press

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• For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Love Is, Important, World

  Rudolf Steiner (1998). “Love and Its Meaning in the World”, p.9, SteinerBooks

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• ... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

  Ashley Montagu

  Principles, Development, Guides

  Ashley Montagu (1970). “The Direction of Human Development”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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• Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.

  Ninian Smart

  Cheerful, Life Is, Difficult

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