Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another h...
If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore, inherent in him as a human being, necessarily remain with him du...
A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order t...
He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few.
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.
Everyone has a purpose of life. My purpose of life is to serve humanity.
When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer on the altar of Peace, find a Human Sunrise. Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality. Human...
Originality is the best form of rebellion.
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
Bringing the essence of life in form of experience is the most crucial element in the development of human mind.
In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God.
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
...human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.
