Quotes about Human

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

Evil and sin weave their way into every aspect of God's creation and every dimension of human personhood and life on earth.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.

It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?