Quotes About Human

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

I go up in the supermarkets and people always go what are you doing here and I go I'm hungry in a sarcastic but nice way just to let them know yo I'm human too man.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.

For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings