The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
As human beings, what we can do is extend help in whatever way possible.
The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Love and compassion are the creating and sustaining elements of humanity, without them humanity will be inhumane.
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
'Social Network' is a good story with human experience connective tissue that makes it ageless.
It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.