In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. – Thomas Szasz
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. – Simone Weil
Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Stephen Covey
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. – Viktor E. Frankl
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency – half tiger, half poet. – Yehudi Menuhin
The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged. – Tariq Ali
I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation. – Taylor Swift
Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it’s like to be human. – Terry Gross
As human beings, we’re very materialistic and have all this stuff – furs and cars and diamonds and money. – Smokey Robinson
Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings. – Tom Cotton
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn’t currently being used. – Tony Buzan
Linguistics is very much a science. It’s a human science, one of the human sciences. And it’s one of the more interesting human sciences. – Samuel R. Delany
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. – William Bartram
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. – Stephen Jay Gould