The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
“I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“...something can be a good thing and yet not a necessary thing. It is good for people to be expert at brain… — Victor Lee Austin Copy Share Image
I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself. — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
If a mother won't like those of her children, who keep singing in her name and trouble her other children, how would… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of… — Sting Copy Share Image
… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“We forget that we humans are animals, inextricably connected to the world and everything in it. In the rush to bring GMO… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I suppose I've always done my share of crying, especially when there's no other way to contain my feelings. I know that… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
