I dislike the concept of ‚chic‘ being the highest compliment for a human being. I’d rather someone be nice than to be chic.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

So many girls come up and say to me, ‚I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn’t even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I’m obsessed.‘ That’s the coolest compliment to me.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

However, there’s no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

What a nice night for an evening.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.