Humans Quotes · Page 1,257

In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works…

— Daniel Dennett

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

— Terence McKenna

Humans recognize effort, and that's what I do. I give max effort.

— Justin Gaethje

People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals,…

— Paul Bloom

We [human beings] are two-legged omnivorous animals, and this means that we have many ecological niches, regarding the possible places where we…

— Rodolfo Llinas

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind,…

— Walt Whitman

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

— Martin H. Fischer

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the…

— Salman Rushdie

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

— Carl Andre

We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.

— Billy Joel

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Yet spiritual realizations often remain compartmentalized, apart from everyday life, or become used as a rationale for living in an impersonal or…

— John Welwood

All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to…

— Buzz Aldrin

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.

— Trent Reznor

I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on…

— Edward Hirsch

[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human…

— Hannah Arendt

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies,…

— Alan Rickman

I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.

— Naomie Harris

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went…

— Edgar Mitchell

We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may…

— Chaim Potok

He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He…

— Charles Templeton

From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that…

— Mencius

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

— Anonymous