"To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make."
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"No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so."
"The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself."
"Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think."
"A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s)."
"There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship."
"The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe."
"The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious."
"Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself."
"There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more."
"Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth."
"The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship."
"Fascists are not human. A snake is more human."
"I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge."
"I'm just human, I have faults like anyone"
"Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human."
"We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth."
"Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being."
"In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human."
"Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness."
"A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships."