We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the wilderness, seems to me to be almost an archetypal image of human beings on their own, human beings making their own way, guiding themselves by the stars they can see - rather than by faith or prayer or invisible forces.
The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill; and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.
My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.
I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising extremism -- in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.
If you have a billion Muslims, 900 million of them were not brought into Islam by any kind of invasion, but most of them through the Sufis, because human beings are such that they are affected by people of spiritual character. Certainly when they display nobility and hospitality and gentility and love and are not selfish or aggressive, and they are honest.
They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences.
I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.
There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.
After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.
The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.
We are Physical, Mental and Spiritual beings. If you don't deal with ALL OF LIFE you're not going to get all that life has to offer.
It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.
I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?
In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.
The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.