Human Beings Quotes - Page 38

• Human beings understand too much.

  Seungsahn

  Too Much, Humans

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• I do believe that we all are, fundamentally, divided creatures. Emotions split from intellect, spirit from flesh and far too often sexuality is disconnected from what we feel, and are, as total human beings. But how, for example, can anyone have an understanding of the virgin if they don't also have an understanding of the prostitute, the saint and sinner in one body?

  Tori Amos

  Believe, Understanding, Body

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• We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Kindness, Heart, Judging People

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1997). “The Inner Life”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as a human being and not simply as an object for sexual gratification.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Understanding, Looks

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• The way people behave towards each other is a measure of their value as human beings.

  Lynne Truss

  People, Way, Behave

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• When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.

  Brian Tracy

  Fall, Thinking, Quality

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• Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

  Carl Jung

  Opinion, Humans

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1974). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of opposites in alchemy”

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• Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.

  Erich Kastner

  Children, Growing Up, Real

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• Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

  Immanuel Kant

  Laughter, Sleep, Odds

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• Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Goal, Wish

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• The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail to wonder about the meaning of his life, which remains obscure and discomforting of it is not put in relations to the mystery of God and if his plan for the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  World, Praying, Mystery

  Pope Benedict XVI (2012). “A School of Prayer”, p.12, Scepter Publishers

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• I think you have to be schizoid three different ways to be an actor ... You have to be a human being. Then you have to be the character you're playing. And on top of that you've got to be the guy sitting out there in Row 10, watching yourself and judging yourself. That's why most of us are crazy to start with, or go nuts once we get into it.

  George C. Scott

  Crazy, Character, Thinking

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• I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the mean S.O.B.s that come along. I've played bird decapitators, puppy stranglers, woman beaters, wife poisoners, child molesters - every goddamn thing you can think of. It was quite scene there for a while. But I think the image is changing...I hope to God the old image is fading from people's minds.

  George C. Scott

  Children, Pain, Mean

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• There is a hunger in every human being for approval.

  Les Giblin

  Approval, Hunger, Humans

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• There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that binds human beings together, for community and commonality, for what he repeatedly calls "the common good". This is hardly news.

  Simon Critchley

  Lonely, Community, Together

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• Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is always an agon, a conflict, and to refuse this assertion is to consign human beings to wallow in some emotional, fusional balm.

  Simon Critchley

  Dream, Emotional, Justice

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• Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity, or at least makes us somewhat suspicious.

  Simon Critchley

  Laughter, Laughing, Doe

  Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley (2011). “On Humour”, p.35, Routledge

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• Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological literature.

  Simon Critchley

  Laughter, Philosophical, Unique

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• I'm not opposed to the protection of animals. But the best way to do that is to make sure some human being owns them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Animal, Way, Protection

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• Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

  Ira Glass

  Like You, Compelling, Humans

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• It's liberating to live at home during the week, but on the weekend it's like, Jesus Christ, how much History Channel can one human being watch?

  John Rzeznik

  Jesus, Home, Weekend

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• I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Peaceful, Important

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Circles, Able

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• Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

  Billy Graham

  Construction, Humans, Conception

  Billy Graham (2013). “Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well”, p.95, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

  Alistair Cooke

  Believe, Hollywood, Propaganda

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