Quotes 41 till 60 of 203.
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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
Cosmos (1980) -
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 123 -
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
The politics of experience -
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
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Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.
Victor J. Stenger, Has Science Found God? -
I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
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I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margret Mead: Some personal views (1979) p. 249
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