A Quotes
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“A human being is a Spirit using the Soul to incarnate through the personality to implement goals that allow the Spirit to become the master of life.”
Source: Hidden Dangers of Meditation and Yoga: How to Play with Your Sacred Fires Safely
“A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.”
“A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are watching. Alone, with no witnesses, he starts to learn about himself—who is he really?”
Source: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
“A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.”
“A human being is all hope and impatience.”
“A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness.”
“A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.”
“A human being is held accountable according to the amount of freedom he gets.”
“A human being is held accountable according to the amount of freedom he has.”
“A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.”
“A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.”
Source: Being Peace
“A human being is million times bigger than a bacteria, planet Earth is million times bigger than a human being. So human beings are just bacteria thriving on Earth's skin. Science gives facts. The egolessness required to sink in those facts comes from spirituality.”
“A human being is not a physical body with a Soul and a Spirit. It is indeed the other way around.”
Source: Hidden Dangers of Meditation and Yoga: How to Play with Your Sacred Fires Safely
“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
“A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.”
“A human being is nothing more than a very large community, on every level.”
Source: Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
“A human being is only breath and shadow.”
“A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.”
“A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Source: Unwind
“A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.”
“A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of time they come afterwards. A man dies and is buried, and all his words and actions are forgotten, but the food he has eaten lives after him in the sound or rotten bones of his children. I think it could be plausibly argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or even of religion....Yet it is curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized. You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but none to cooks or bacon-curers or market gardeners.”
Source: The Road To Wigan Pier: (Authorized Orwell Edition): A Mariner Books Classic
“A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.”
Source: The Road to Wigan Pier
“A human being is responsible for one thing only: His own happiness.”
“A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.”
“A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself. A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two. Considered in this way a human being is still not a self.... In the relation between two, the relation is the third as a negative unity, and the two relate to the relation and in the relation to the relation; thus under the qualification of the psychical the relation between the psychical and the physical is a relation. If, however, the relation relates itself to itself, this relation is the positive third, and this is the self.”
Source: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
“A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.”
“A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.”
“A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
“A human being rarely feels more threatened than when the firm fabric of his existence begins to unravel - when all order collapses and he finds himself utterly exposed to the unexpected and unpredictable. Even relatively harmless signs of such impending dissolution fill us with dread.”
Source: Self-Actualization
“A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.”
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, writing as Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
“A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842
“A human being should learn to make decisions independently in order to achieve goals efficiently”
“A human being should never become a means to an end.”
Source: Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
“A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.”
“A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.”
“A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us.”
“A human being was connected to the world through his or her skin and how could someone with clogged pores feel the environment or be sensitive to its vibrations?”
“A human being weighing 70 kilograms contains among other things:
-45 litres of water
-Enough chalk to whiten a chicken pen
-Enough phosphorus for 2,200 matches
-Enough fat to make approximately 70 bars of soap
-Enough iron to make a two inch nail
-Enough carbon for 9,000 pencil points
-A spoonful of magnesium
I weigh more than 70 kilograms.
And I remember a TV series called Cosmos. Carl Sagan would walk around on a set that was meant to look like space, speaking in large numbers. On one of the shows he sat in front of a tank full of all the substances human beings are made of. He stirred the tank with a stick wondering if he would be able to create life.
He didn’t succeed.”
Source: Naïve. Super
“A human being who falls down reminds us of an animal we might have hunted and brought down ourselves. Every sudden fall which arouses laughter does so because it suggests helplessness and reminds us that the fallen can, if we want, be treated as prey. If we went further and actually ate it, we would not laugh. We laugh instead of eating it. Laughter is our physical reaction to the escape of potential food.”
Source: Crowds and Power
“A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.”
“A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.”
“A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.”
“a human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbour. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence.”
Source: Beware of Pity
“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.”
“A human being works until he is not satisfied,
The day he will be fully satisfied, the motive of his life will be completed.
- Sahaj Sabharwal”