Beings Quotes
3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors
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Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
— Hal Clement
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As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.
— Martin Luther
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
— Ramana Maharshi
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Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.
— Humberto Maturana
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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
— Virginia Satir
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Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.
— Shirley Hazzard
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When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision…
— Black Elk
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Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.
— Julia Child
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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
— Pema Chodron
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Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of…
— Pema Chodron
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If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of…
— Dainin Katagiri
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There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward…
— Dogen
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When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
— Peter Drucker
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If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of…
— Rudolf Virchow
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The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no…
— Thabo Mbeki
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If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in…
— Dick Durbin
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One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Â Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Â Ideally, we would be nurtured…
— Julia Cameron
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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.
— C. J. Mahaney
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
— Alan Kay
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Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?
— Donna J. Haraway
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My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings…
— Walter Mosley
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