Human Life Quotes

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.

Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

Communal well-being is central to human life.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.