For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion.' I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.
This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.
Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.
Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.
You are here to feel the joy of life by empowering, enabling, enlightening humanity so that humanity may find its own joy.
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
There is nothing wrong with you... Life isn't supposed to be easy... It is designed to be challenging so that you will grow into a more conscious, loving human being.