Quotes About Human

The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.

I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds—which moves me to tears, and I have to brush them away, quickly, before anyone notices.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

Purpose and revenge were all I needed. Everything else be damned." His face darkened with something more intense than mere desire. "Until you, Rose. You make me feel more human than I ever felt when I was one.

To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of living the life of a human being.

Dünyada bana hiçbir ?ey tabiattan melül bir insan?n zorla gülmeye çal??mas? kadar ac? gelmemi?tir.

Ben dünyada bu kadar güzel gülen, güldü?ü zaman bu kadar güzel olan insan görmedim.

What is living religion? It is the human soul growing towards the Ideal, throwing out tendrils here and there, and ever ascending from bud to bloom; ever enriched by the fact of its perfectability, operating incessantly on the trammels an establishment may lace around it, straining them and bursting them, ever seeking its proper expansion, and ever therefore impatient of restraint.

Freedom—or mukti or moksha—is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination.

The question is: do you want to be a full-time human being or a part-time human being? If you restrict your ability to respond, the scope and dimension of your experience will be unsurprising, predictable, limited, narrow. But to be an absolutely full-time human being is to be a constant full-blooded response to everything. You don't have to do anything in particular. You just need to become a willing piece of life in this glorious living cosmos. Responsibility

Once you have come with the human form, life has given you a certain sense of intelligence, a certain sense of awareness and freedom to choose what you want to be right now, in this moment.

This is the human misfortune that still there's not enough intelligence in the world that human beings will rise to their peaks when everything is well. They wait for calamities.

Every kind of misery that human beings are going through is manufactured in their minds.

responsibility for our own. When you live by the memory of a single book, you are religious. When you live by the memory of several books, you are intellectual. When you live by the memory of several generations of people, you become a truly compassionate human being. But when you live beyond the memory of generations of people, you become a mystic.

Why human life needs so much attention is because we are human beings.

The thing to remember is that none of these will settle you in any enduring way. Human life is longing for unlimited expansion, and that is the only thing that will settle you for good. The

The fundamental difference between a human being and a machine is perception.

There was pain. Terrible, unbearable pain. But pain is a natural phenomenon, and it is good. Without it you wouldn't know if your leg was chopped off. But suffering is another matter altogether. Pain is bad enough; why make it worse with suffering? Suffering is entirely self-created. And every human being has the choice: to suffer or not to suffer. It doesn't take much intelligence to choose the latter.

in pursuit of human happiness we have turned this planet into a bonfire and people aren't even happy

To be joyful and peaceful within yourself every moment of your life, to be able to perceive life beyond its physical limitations—these are not superhuman qualities. These are human possibilities. Yoga is not about being superhuman; it is about realizing that being human is super.

the more profound your understanding of the human mechanism is, the more magical your life will be.

I also saw that language was no more than a conspiracy devised by human beings. If someone spoke, I realized they were only making sounds, and I was making up the meanings. So, I stopped making up meanings and the sounds became very amusing. I could see patterns spewing out of their mouths. If I kept staring, the person would just disintegrate and turn into a blob of energy. Then all that was left was patterns!

Yoga is not about being superhuman; it is about realizing that being human is super.

But above all, it is an important tool that empowers human beings to break free from the compulsive patterns of their lives.