#beings

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. ↗

— Martin Buber

#comprehensible #embracing #through #world

The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#chance #done #each #equality #essential

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! ↗

— John Foxe

#average #beings #burned #during #each

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. ↗

— William Godwin

#consists #distinguished #earth #eminently #gift

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beings #definite #distinctively #existence #individuals

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#beings #empress #i #i am #i write

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color. ↗

— Malcolm X

#believe #color #human #human beings #i

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#beings #created #creator #dishonor #divine

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#cry #deny #human #human beings #made

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#beliefs #cannot #cause #does #hold