human being quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.