Fully Human Quotes

56 quotes by 43 authors

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it â€” in other words, by becoming civilized â€” that men become fully… — Theodore Dalrymple
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an… — Theodore Dalrymple
We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human. — John Welwood
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and… — Abraham Maslow
Love is the force that makes us fully human. — David Suzuki
Science, is the creation by humans of a particular paradigm and methodology for discovering truth and understanding reality. Hence it can never fully reflect the… — Stephen A. Diamond
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human. — Abraham Maslow
We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves. — Pope Francis
To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other. — Oprah Winfrey
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it. — C.S. Lewis
Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human. — Weston La Barre
We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality. — Jean Vanier
Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human. — Hans Rookmaaker
In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the… — Adrienne Rich
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in… — Andrea Dworkin
Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human… — David Steindl-Rast
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we… — Alveda King
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by… — Abraham Maslow
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. — Pema Chodron

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