Quotes of: Human-consciousness Keyword

Our personal stories of perseverance contain immense wisdom that can assist others in finding their way to peace and illumination during difficult times.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

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.

Charlie Kaufman

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership i...

Gary L. Francione

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.

Ed Harris

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Robertson Davies

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

Abandon

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.

Audition

I do believe in the power of prayer. I do. And I believe in the power of human kindness.

Angelo's Journey: A Border Collie's Quest for Home

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

Atlas of the Human Heart

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.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

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.

Above the Thunder

said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

So by being created, you are automatically made manifest within a system in which you are directly associated with your creator, and it is this association that we define as a relationship.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting…

I, Mary MacLane: A diary of Human Days

Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.

Into the Wind: My Six-Month Journey Wandering the World for Life's Purpose

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

I, Robot