"Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?"
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"Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'."
"I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings."
"The basic and essential human is the woman."
"Footballers are no different from human beings."
"You cannot stop the human mind from working."
"The most human thing about us is our technology."
"But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge."
"Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are."
"It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork."
"To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet."
"Every human being has an impact on another."
"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."
"I think of myself as a human being."
"All human suffering concerns each human being."
"The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes."
"The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors."
"A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to."
"Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated."
"But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair."