Being human Quote by George Orwell Download Open image “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being human Nature of man Perfection
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection � that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Perfection does not exist. It's more important to be happy with the human being you are. — Talisa Soto Copy Share Image
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying. — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity. — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection.… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Perfection isn't attainable, that's why we demand it from others. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual's life energy. Humans… — Robert Glover Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
“I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
