Solomon Ibn Gabirol Quotes

Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless.

People who know there is a god and people who know there isn't live in exactly the same world. Same number of hours in the day, same weather, same football results. They both love their children and die of the same diseases.

We're like everybody else. We hurt like everybody.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

We are all alike, on the inside.

I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

But we Americans are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

We're all in this together. We're all sinners.

Am I perfect? Not at all. I'm just like everybody else.

No matter where you come from, we all share the same struggles as human beings, and my beginning is no different.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

I'm a seriously flawed individual, but I guess everybody is.