Quotes about Human

To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.

It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.