Human Essence Quotes

We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about "saving our soul."

Our dream is to one day uncover the essence of what makes us human.

I know that sounds corny. And I know you've heard it before. But it's really true: We're so much more than our bodies.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

I realized that... at the core of who we are, we're these perfect beings - and we're not taught that.

Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his or her "characteristics," all the emotions, strivings, tastes, and constructions which it pleases us to call "My Life." We have grounds to hope that a Life is something more than a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.