I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.
People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.
...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.
Simplicity is everywhere in nature, and meditation is a natural state. Meditation is a state of peaceful equilibrium, the fourth state of consciousness, and is always available to every single human being.
They were relieved that I was chosen by a human being," she'd said to Angelica in her dry voice. "They were braced for an interspecies liaison.
It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.
In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.
There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not just the absence of consciousness, the absence of the capacity for consciousness.
It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.
The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.
A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something better.
I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
Thus the word "inhuman", in this book's title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings.
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.
Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.
