But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
...human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.
When you secretly love someone it makes you an amazingly gentle and loving human being.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?
The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being- it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. I human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
You are human, you will make mistakes, and it’s one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.
Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future." -Nelson Mandela
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about...
The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin...
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if s...
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. If this is not the case, then humanity becomes — as it is already to a large extent �...
Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of human passions, interests, and desires, nor by th...
Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.
