Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.
I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.
Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.
My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.