Famous Human Quotes
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
To err is human to forgive, divine.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
Love is a flame that burns bright even in the darkest of times, reminding us of the resilience of the human spirit.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Custom is the great guide to human life.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
