Famous quotes containing the words human being and/or human:
“This is too much: I am a human being! Only an angel can forget such a blow, and only a devil can compensate enough for it!”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“And so I look on those sentiments which make the glory of the human being, love, humility, faith, as being also the intimacy of Divinity in the atoms; and, that, as soon as the man is right, assurances and previsions emanate from the interior of his body and his mind; as, when flowers reach their ripeness, incence exhales from them, and, as a beautiful atmosphere is generated from the planet by the averaged emanations from all its rocks and soils.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)