Human Beings Quotes - Page 29

• Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

  Bertrand Russell

  Desire, Degrees, Lives Of Others

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.445, Psychology Press

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• I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.

  Hugh Herr

  Technology, Views, Broken

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• A balanced education consists of knowledge in the mind, honesty in the heart, and strength in the body ... a true human being is an educator not by words alone but by being an example.

  Jhoon Goo Rhee

  Honesty, Heart, Mind

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• To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.

  John Stuart Mill

  Spiritual, Ignorant, Important

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.51

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• Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Punctuation Marks, Sentences, Humans

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Always Believe, Humans

  "How to Win a Nobel Peace Prize Every Day" by Mara Shapshay, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2015.

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• I was raised to believe in the innate goodness of humanity, developed a deep sense of the dignity of the individual human being, and had great appreciation for the miracle of life and our existence on this earth.

  George Lee Butler

  Appreciation, Believe, Miracle

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• Nothing will have more impact on the future of the world than for each of us to find out why we were born and to do it. Human beings tend to do this when parents, teachers and other mentors invite us to it.

  Oliver DeMille

  Teacher, Impact, Parent

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• The worst of Nature brings out the best in our fellow human beings.

  George W. Bush

  Worst, Humans, Fellows

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• Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being that has achieved cross-level coherence within herself, and between herself and the people, challenges, and institutions around her. Happiness comes from between.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Challenges, Feelings

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• We're only here for one reason: to wake up... To realize yourself doesn't mean you are perfect as a human being. It means you are willing to bear the imperfections and not sell out to them.

  Eli Jaxon-Bear

  Mean, Perfect, Wake Up

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Law, Subtle

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Art, Men, Years

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• I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

  Marilyn French

  Believe, Authority, Equal

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• The Human Values should be regarded as basic requirements for every human being. In spreading the message of these values to the world, you should all cooperate with each other and act in harmony.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Messages, World, Requirements

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• A tranquil mind, a truth-filled speech, and a body dedicated to service-one who has these three qualities is described as the embodiment of 'Triputi' (the Triple purity). Such a one is the noblest of human beings.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mind, Quality, Three

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• How can anyone be called human, if being born a human being and growing in a human society, he does not recognise human values? You must see that you don't harm any living being. He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, Doe, Growing

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• Wherefrom are human values to be derived and how are they to be developed? Human values are born along with human birth. They exist in union. Unfortunately, man today separates himself from human values and yet wants to live as a human being. To recover human values, man has to take the spiritual path.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Men, Unions

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• For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Would Be, Levels, Want

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• We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.

  James Dobson

  Stand Alone, Difficult, Circumstances

  Dr. James Dobson (1980). “What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women”

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• The profound unity of subjective existence and objective environment leads naturally to the idea that the life-force of one human being can affect other living beings and even the fundamental being of humankind as a whole. Furthermore, the minds of humankind fuse into one and exert a continuous influence, both physical and spiritual, on other living beings and on the whole of nature.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Spiritual, Ideas, Profound

  Daisaku, Ikeda (1982). “Life: An Enigma, a Precious Jewel”, Kodansha America

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• There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

  David Foreman

  World, Limits, Honorable

  Interview with Derrick Jensen, www.derrickjensen.org. December 4, 2004.

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• Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Simple, Soul, Comfort

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• Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Wine, Thinking, Iron

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• Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Luxury, House, Care

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