Makes Us Human Quotes

45 quotes by 39 authors

What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you… — Rollo May
The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that… — Thomas Berry
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious… — Gerhard Richter
I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we… — Thomas Jane
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without… — Thomas Berry
Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people… — Matt Bomer
It is the ability to choose which makes us human. — Madeleine L'Engle
Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What… — Henri Nouwen
From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is… — Neil MacGregor
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science… — Damon Knight
Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human.… — Richard Branson
Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special. — Claudia Hammond
Let us be sad; it is feeling that makes us human. — Ming-Dao Deng
Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. — John Scalzi
Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the… — Simon Sinek
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us… — Joe Greene
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the… — Irvin D. Yalom
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. — Jane Goodall
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human. — Brian Greene
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is… — Octavio Paz

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