Top 1200 What It Means To Be Human Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.

The word "federalism" you might think that means federalism trumps everything; federalism means federal domination. It does not mean that. It means the exact opposite, in fact. It means the states are sovereign and the federal government cannot tell 'em what to do in so many different ways.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum

Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

I think, questions about what it means to respect nature become very important because just as in human society, for example, part of what it is for me to live a good life as a human being in a human society is to have respect for others around me. Now, that respect, to some extent, can be thought of as being grounded in the rights and interest of others but it also has to do with the stance that I take in the world and what it is that provides meaning and significance in my own life and I think there are similar ideas of respect for nature that apply as well.

Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

The only thing I wanted to do in my music is be human and communicate all the aspects of that, which often means being vulnerable.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.

Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

Marriage is a unified institution. Marriage means a committed, legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. That's what it means. That's what it means in the revelations. That's what it means in the secular law. You cannot have that marriage coexisting institutionally with something else called same-gender marriage. It simply is a definitional impossibility.

Wherefrom are human values to be derived and how are they to be developed? Human values are born along with human birth. They exist in union. Unfortunately, man today separates himself from human values and yet wants to live as a human being. To recover human values, man has to take the spiritual path.

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

Science, is the creation by humans of a particular paradigm and methodology for discovering truth and understanding reality. Hence it can never fully reflect the hidden face of humanity, its creator, in the same sense that a computer can never become fully human or know what it means to be human: however sophisticated, these machines will forever remain mere artifacts of humanity.

Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.

I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.

The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.

Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?

Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something... ... Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.

To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of pure logic but also the "logic" of emotions and intuition. My musical techniques, although often rigorous in their internal structure, leave many openings through which the most complex and mysterious factors of the intelligence may penetrate.

I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.

Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign within the malicious, the beautiful within the tragic. 'Love' is the experience of this whole, its unfinished parts, including those of one's own in relation to those of the other.

One of the most solemn responsibilities of the president and it's set out expressly in the Constitution is that the president is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and that means the Constitution. It means statutes. It means treaties. It means all of the laws of the United States.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.