Beings Quotes
3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors
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Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship…
— Gary Steiner
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have…
— Adyashanti
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John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the connections human beings…
— Peter Orner
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The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become…
— Empedocles
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Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
— R. J. Palacio
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After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Stabilizing the climate is not about saving the human species... Stabilizing the climate is a precious opportunity to pass on to all future human beings…
— Eban Goodstein
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We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world…
— Vijay Prashad
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The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to…
— Chanakya
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Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.
— Gertrude Stein
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The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we…
— Paul Kurtz
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When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in…
— Unknown Author
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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of…
— Octavio Paz
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The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human…
— Unknown Author
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When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model…
— Margaret Mead
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Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was…
— Thomas Huxley
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We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood…
— Seneca the Younger
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And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to…
— Kenny Smith
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Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. .…
— Carl Jung
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Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and…
— Unknown Author
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