Beings Quotes
3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors
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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far…
— Emile M. Cioran
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The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of…
— Vaclav Havel
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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need…
— Albert Einstein
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He…
— Lin Yutang
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Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre…
— Jacques Vallee
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The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the [occult] traditions…
— Jacques Vallee
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Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods…
— Colin Ward
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Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as…
— Brian Froud
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If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.
— Jane Fonda
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There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.
— Sri Chinmoy
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I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other.…
— Muhammad Ali
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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can…
— Lord Byron
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Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of…
— Albert Einstein
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What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we…
— Albert Einstein
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Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
— Albert Einstein
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Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows that…
— Charles Eisenstein
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History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.
— Victor LaValle
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Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and…
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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