Beings Quotes

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.