Beings Quotes

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from.

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.