Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
I'm human. I think people see me as sweeter and softer than I do.
One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.
Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.
Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.
I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy and die.
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being.
I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
I have no wish to take life, not even human life
You cannot break the human spirit.
Civilization itself is housed in the human being.
Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.
Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.
I believe the human spirit is indomitable.
A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i. e. , an embryo).