#human

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#another #beings #best #family #finest

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#give #great #human #model #perfection

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#amoral #ancient #both #earth #fairly

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. ↗

— George Eliot

#even #experience #human #human experience #incongruous

As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you. ↗

— John Fahey

#else #errors #everybody #everybody else #everyday

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ↗

— George Eliot

#forsake #helpful #human #more #pity

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#acceptance #alive #because #everybody #human

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#ago #disappeared #had #hands #happened

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#beings #believe #broader #fuller #greater