Quotes with beings

Quotes 161 till 180 of 203.

  • Aldous Huxley This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carl Sagan Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Nathalie Sarraute Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
    Nathalie Sarraute
    French writer (1900 - 1999)
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  • Salman Rushdie Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alex Grey To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Hannah Arendt Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Anne Rice Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Bertrand Piccard Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Bernhard Langer We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Arthur Peacocke We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Anthony Robbins We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Albert Einstein We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Moyers We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Ben Okri We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Asa Gray We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Swami Ramdas We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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