Quotes About Human

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

Science can only determine what is, but not what shall be, and beyond its realm, value judgements remain indispensable. Religion, on the other hand, is concerned only with evaluating human thought and actions; it is not qualified to speak of real facts and the relationships between them.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation... I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.

cringed. What made him cringe was not fear but empathy, a basic human quality that allows one to identify with another's feelings.

There was a mysteriously comforting companionship in the dog's presence. Link found himself talking to him from time to time as to a fellow human. And the words did not echo back in eerie hollowness from the walls, as when he had sometimes sought to ease his desolation by talking aloud to himself.

A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on; And the road didn't become more beautiful or even more ugly. That's human action on the outside world. We take nothing away and we put nothing back, we pass by and we forget; And the sun is always punctual every day. (5/7/14)

It's an already inside outside, The philosophers say it's the soul But it's not the soul: it's the animal or the man itself In its way of existing.

One day when God fell asleep And the Holy Ghost went off flying, He got into a box of miracles and stole three. With the first he made it so that no one would know he had run away. With the second he made himself a human boy forever. With the third he created a Christ eternally crucified And left him nailed to the cross that there is in Heaven Where he's used as a model for other crosses. Then he ran away to the sun And came down on the first ray he caught.