Makes Us Human Quotes
45 Makes Us Human quotes by 38 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.
— Unknown Author
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Let us be sad; it is feeling that makes us human.
— Ming-Dao Deng
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Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.
— John Scalzi
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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
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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
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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
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What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
— Jane Goodall
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Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
— Brian Greene
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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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It's choice that makes us human.
— Jodi Picoult
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That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.…
— Jodi Picoult
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And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
— Jodi Picoult
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Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
— Bryce Courtenay
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Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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