A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
In Actual Human Rights are "caring" for Humans left on the planet
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
When viewed at the next quantum level of perspective, from which the Earth is seen as an organism and humans are seen as microorganisms, the human species looks like a menace to the planet. In fact, the human race is looking a lot like a disease -- c...
I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it h...
The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qur’ān assumed, affirmed, and confirmed. It obliterated all distinctions among men except goodness and virtue (taqwā): The reason the Qur’ān emphasizes essenti...
Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
The spirit of a man is divine.
Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits.
Art is a picture of the spirit.
Spirit is love inside the love.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Each of us is a spirit in material form.
I love singing, it lifts my spirit.
I always make music that is true to my spirit.
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than...
Learn to paint a tiger and you only paint his skin; learn to know a human being and you only know his face.
When we are meditating in a haunted graveyard, or even in our rooms, frightening external and internal appearances may arise during Chöd practice. If this happens, check the two 'superstitions'—the external, frightening appearance, and the interna...
