We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as…

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

— Victor Hugo

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our…

— Kenan Malik

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve…

— Daniel H. Pink

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable…

— Peter L. Bernstein

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…

— Tim Wise

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into…

— Anton Webern

What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this…

— Emily Browning

I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Is there any holy beings like human beings?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it…

— Frederick Lenz

I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

— George W. Bush

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated…

— Hanns Eisler

“According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and…

— Cruce Stark

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

— Marilynne Robinson

Human beings seek community, and permanent openness is hard to sustain.

— Ross Douthat