Beings Quotes
3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors
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People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the right to be…
— Edward Kennedy
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The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if…
— Rob Bell
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Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. It's not God…
— Gunter Grass
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The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation
— Che Guevara
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My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.
— Mark Nepo
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The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future--though all three,…
— Thomas Nagel
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Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering…
— Amartya Sen
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The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.
— Joe Meno
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The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It…
— John Keegan
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True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few…
— Adi Da
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For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.
— Thomas Keating
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A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake…
— Robert Falcon Scott
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Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it…
— Lee Smolin
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Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in…
— David Deutsch
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What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a…
— Seth Lloyd
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One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle,…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced…
— A. R. Ammons
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If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not…
— Nichiren
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Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty…
— Frank Drake
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In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should…
— Jane Goodall
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Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
— Corliss Lamont
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There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of…
— Corliss Lamont
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