Quotes of: Human-reason Keyword

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

Italo Calvino

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

Debasish Mridha

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

George Lakoff

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Herbie Hancock

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.

Max Brooks

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Billy Joel

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

Ali Khamenei

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

Stan Slap

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

Love

Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide sense): but she had not altogether ceased to be a baby: and babies are of course not human--they are animals, and have a very ancien...

A High Wind in Jamaica

[At the scene of a murder] The cats' bloodthirst was normal; it was the way God had made them. They were hunters, they killed for food and to train their young--well maybe sometimes for sport. But this violent act by some unknown human had nothing to...

Cat in the Dark

...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put h...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Humans are most imaginative when they need a means of self-destruction. If the world existed in an overflowing amount of happiness; a utopian state, then the suicide rate would dwarf any extinction level threat. Humans cannot be trusted with their ow...

Lionel Suggs

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

Traditional

Do you really think I’ve been murdered?” Michael’s voice was soft, but I still heard it from across the bedroom. He stood in the doorway with a rather solemn expression. Words failed me. Would he really want to hear the answer? If it were me, w...

The Black Parade

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.

Can Life Prevail? - A Radical Approach To The Environmental Crisis

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug,...

Cotton Tenants: Three Families

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tool...

Ender's Game

Whatever was said about Religion was meant human being and nothing else. As for example the Vedic sages said, ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ (I am the Brahma or God), what did he mean? After all he was a human being. It can be said like this, ‘Above all huma...

Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond