Quotes of: Human-being Keyword

The aristocrats had to force them to do their jobs. After all, human beings are not badgers. We aren't molded to stoop.

Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilization

I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I’m just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can’t change that.

Holy Cow

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

How to Be Good

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

Angels & Demons

human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

So how does God affect justice in this life/economy/reality? A lightening bolt, an angel of death, or by the hand of a human being?" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitati...

Relational Ontology

The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique quality which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human being Is forced to fight against himself.

My Life's Soul-Journey: Daily Meditations for Ever-Increasing Spiritual Fulfillment

As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life.

I keep a human brain in my pocket, because you never know when you’ll never know.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

The Love Mindset

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefol...

Lessons of the Masters

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All human beings by nature desire to know.

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled ...

A Thread of Grace

(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)

Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.

Towards a Philosophy of Photography