We’ve all felt like an outsider at times. It’s a very human experience.
We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
We are not human doings, we are human beings. As human beings, we are worthy of love and nurture.
Trickery is what humans are all about. They’re so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.
Too much kindness and respect are given to the unseen and not enough to humanity. It seems that in our nature we loathe each other and bestow our respect and love on the abstract.
To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
To err is human, to forgive is divine.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is, that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians.[SIR WILLIAM OSLER]
The world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.[Der wahre Wert eines Menschen ist in erster Linie dadurch bestimmt, in welchem Grad und in welchem Sinn er zur Befreiung vom Ich gelangt ist.]