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Human Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human…
- True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then…
- Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering,…
- There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.
- Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human…
- Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
- Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals…
- Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again…
- Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments…
- When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.
- Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those…
- It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for…
- If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers, the grass and…
- Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in…
- How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that…
- And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name…
- The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgement.
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong