T Quotes
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“The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.”
Source: The province of the heart
“The human animal only sees what it wants to see.”
Source: Beyond the Grave
“The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“The human appears to be genetically adapted to sleep next to a source of heat.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.”
“The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.”
Source: The Ascent of Man
“The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.”
“The human being always carries an ordinary mind based on the limited capacity bounded by the time, dimension, birth, and death process. This is how our ordinary mind has been built; it is not capable of Spiritual consciousness.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.”
“The human being destroys so many things on his own, and it is not in his power to restore anything. Nature, by contrast, has all the power to heal as long one does not eavesdrop or interrupt it.”
“The human being has enormous resources in the power to heal. And in those resources lie things that we ourselves need to clear or feel.”
“The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.”
Source: The Hidden Messages in Water
“The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.”
Source: Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus
“The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.”
“The human being is a skin-covered petrie dish.”
“The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to heal....So you should not fear tragedy and suffering. Like love, they make you more a part of the human family. From them can come your greatest creativity. They are the fire that burns you pure.”
“The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.”
“The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be.”
“The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.”
Source: Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka
“The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.”
“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”
Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy
“The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.”
“The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.”
Source: Submission, Faith and Beauty: The Religion of Islam
“The human being is not being human.”
Source: Finding Jesus
“The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.”
“The human being is one of the creatures that created unequally and in different shapes.”
“The human being is simultaneously that which he is and that which he yearns to be.”
“The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name”
“The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.”
“The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.”
Source: Toward a Psychology of Being
“The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within consciousness. (As compared with the natural displays of compassion by other creatures that is not necessarily 'within consciousness. ') That's the only difference. We didn't create compassion, but it's flowing through us-or it could. The phase change that we're in seems, to me, to depend upon that comprehensive compassion unfurling in the human species.”
“The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.”
“The human being is unique precisely because they constantly choose between the best and the worst in every context. Astrology contributes to the recovery, preservation, and expansion of this clarity: of how the tracks are laid for the train of personal history.”
Source: Astrology and Free Will: The 12 facets of the individual
“The human being is what links consciousness to its own infinite expressions in form. Through the form of an awake human being, consciousness becomes conscious of itself as both formlessness and as all forms. This is why, to the true sage, everything is divine, whole, and complete. Everything is God, the Self. (p. 71)”
Source: The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts from the Teachings of Adyashanti
“The human being likes to have something to despise;
and likes not having to run after.”
“The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith.”
Source: Wallace D. Wattles Trilogy: The Science of Being Well, the Science of Getting Rich & the Science of Being Great
“The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.”
Source: Limbo
“The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.”
“The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.”
Source: The Maslow Business Reader
“The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail to wonder about the meaning of his life, which remains obscure and discomforting of it is not put in relations to the mystery of God and if his plan for the world.”
Source: A School of Prayer
“The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.”
“The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.”
“The human being, such a clumsy insect.”
Source: Finding Jesus
“The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.”
“The human being that I strive to be is a great human being, like a loving human being, but as an actor, you take on roles that are not you and that's the fun part for me as far as acting goes. You really get to learn about other human beings and not judge.”
“The human being was created for something more than just living and dying by our egos and desires. Like granite, our egos are transformed and purified by the heat of worldly trials and friction into the precious ruby of the spirit. We were not sent to this Earth to achieve something, but rather to become what we have always been—a mirror for the divine qualities of Allah. We were created to know, love and worship Allah through purifying our hearts and becoming representatives of Allah’s mercy upon all of creation without discrimination.”
Source: Secrets of Divine Love Journal: Insightful Reflections that Inspire Hope and Revive Faith
“The human being who acts is the human being who lives.”
“The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.”