
Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat. —
David Quammen

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. —
Elizabeth Edwards

You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person. —
Vivian Gornick

Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend. —
Jose Contreras

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. —
Raymond Hull

The present is never a happy state to any human being. —
Samuel Johnson

I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being. —
Robert Jensen

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. —
Albert Schweitzer

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them. —
Celia Green

I am not a human being but the song of the soul and dance of the spirit. —
Debasish Mridha

Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it's up to all of us to find our way back to the light. —
Diana Nyad

God created us all with his love, to be equally treated.
No human being is superior over another. —
Ellen J. Barrier

It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms. —
Zooey Deschanel

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined. —
Philip Kitcher

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human. —
Terry Tempest Williams

No human being is the same; we are like snowflakes, none of us are the same but we are all COOL —
Pharrell Williams

Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all. —
Marianne Williamson

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't. —
Joan Chen

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. —
George Herbert Palmer

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear. —
Gerry Mulligan

Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody. —
Lou Reed

Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being. —
Zoltan Istvan

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick. —
Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to be a well-rounded human being with none of these knotty lumps of rage and guilt and self-disgust. —
Nick Hornby

We turn ourselves into beasts so that we may cope with being human. —
Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit —
Yamaoka Tesshu

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. —
Bertrand Russell

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. —
Anais Nin

The Last Judgement is the Last Judgement, but a human being who spent his life in Russia, has to be, without any hesitation, placed into Paradise. —
Joseph Brodsky

In every human being there is both garbage and gold, it is up to us to choose what we pay attention to. —
Werner Erhard

You are not a human being living your life, but you are a spiritual being longing for life. —
Debasish Mridha

It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask. —
Jason Calacanis

Touch is the meaning of being human. —
Andrea Dworkin

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal. —
Alan Keyes

Who wants the humiliation of being father to the human race? —
Steve Toltz

Kundalini is prana as it passes through a human being. —
Frederick Lenz

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. —
Carl Jung

You have to suffer in order to be a human being who can help people understand suffering. —
Nicholson Baker