#human being

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#being #coming #course #human #human being

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#attendant #being #does #every #human

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#any #battle #being #day #doing

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #human #human beings #inverse #involved

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#being #give #human #human being #i

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#beings #board #drawing #human #human beings

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ↗

— William James

#alter #altering #attitudes #being #discovery

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ↗

— William James

#altering #attitudes #beings #human #human beings

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#everyone #evolution #going #human #human beings