Quotes About Human

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of human beings

Only human beings have the ability to seek growth and self-improvement. We have the capacity to consciously change the direction of our lives, to enrich and deepen our lives instead of just allowing them to flow on aimlessly.

Man can be defined as an animal that makes dogmas. As he piles doctrine on doctrine and conclusion on conclusion in the formation of some . . . philosophy or religion, he is . . . becoming more and more human. When

For the first time in human history we are now able to remove large amounts of carbon that are sequestered deep inside the earth and transfer it to the atmosphere, thus affecting global climate. This is part of what Revelle and Suess meant when they wrote in their landmark 1957 paper that "[h]uman beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future."65

Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)

We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science fiction we can approach that mystery, not in small, everyday symbols, but in bigger ones of space and time.

The voice was almost perfectly human. "Hello, Anthony." "Hello, Ultron," said Tony Stark.

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see what makes the human heart happy? Is it art or is it sex? Or is it, as I suspect, just keeping going from next thing to next thing to next thing to next thing to next to next to next to next pulsating stupidly to outlast time?

Give boys permission to have an internal life, approval for the full range of human emotions, and help in developing an emotional vocabulary so that they may better understand themselves and communicate more effectively with others.

I guess there's good and bad in everyone and tragedy can amplify either.

Bait-and-switch grace is just one more expression of human religion that tries to add effort and earning to God's finished work. It's grace with strings attached, and grace with strings attached isn't really grace at all (Romans 11:6; Galatians 2:15 – 21).

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.

This is the feast of our mortality, the most mundane and human holiday.

Technology like art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Yet what seems to me beyond question is that any social system (not only ours) that has created and maintained a Doomsday Machine and has put a trigger to it, including first use of nuclear weapons, in the hands of one human being—anyone, not just this man, still worse in the hands of an unknown number of persons—is in core aspects mad. Ours is such a system. We are in the grip of institutionalized madness.

La mundanidad de la excelencia. Los logros humanos más deslumbrantes proceden en realidad de la combinación de innumerables elementos individuales que por separado son, en cierto sentido, corrientes.

The human being is the only animal that thinks about the future.