Quotes About Human Uniqueness

#1. Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

Eric Hoffer

#2. I'm afraid there is evidence to refute this claim of human uniqueness. Cetaceans are one example that are known to share experiences.

John Pappas

#3. The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.

Eric Hoffer

#4. There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it has brought me closer to my family and has given me an appreciation for how the human brain develops and the uniqueness of each child it afflicts.

Manny Alvarez

#5. Our uniqueness is what makes us common. It is the same fact that we are unique that we as individuals have in common.

Morena Baloyi

#6. Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.

Milton H. Erickson

#7. If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

Charles Handy

#8. There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

Charles Taylor

#9. He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

J.K. Rowling

#10. When's the last time you had a serious conversation with someone about the meaning of love? In this way, love is the mirror image of shame. We desperately don't want to experience shame, and we're not willing to talk about it.

Brene Brown

#11. The second way of finding a meaning in life is by experiencing something - such as goodness, truth and beauty - by experiencing nature and culture or, last but not least, by experiencing another human being in his very uniqueness - by loving him.

Viktor E. Frankl

#12. All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Elizabeth Goudge

#13. The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Gloria Steinem

#14. The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

Ahmet Davutoglu

#15. Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have existed. The Army has done so because of its unique character- a uniqueness based primarily upon intangibles that cannot be costed.

William A. Connelly

#16. Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual. - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

Nancy S. Mure

#17. You are Younique! Build your unicity, live your uniquity and unleash your uniqueness.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#18. Sometimes people don't get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain itself. Our brains can be our worst enemy, our cruelest opponent.

Buket Uzuner

#19. If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you'll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too.

Seth

#20. Perhaps the most indispensable thing we can do as
human beings, every day of our lives, is remind ourselves and others
of our complexity, fragility, finiteness, and uniqueness.

Antonio R. Damasio

#21. Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate the next change in paradigm for human thought.

Michael Persinger

#22. Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

Salman Rushdie

#23. Legs: the symbol of my solitude, my individual path, my uniqueness. Arms: the symbol of togetherness, my connection to others, my belonging to the human race. My legs make me who I am; they create my solitary path. My arms make me who I belong to; they connect me to the world.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#24. When you find yourself thinking far from others ... .. When you are faced with the differences between you and the rest ... .. Know you found your uniqueness.

Sameh Elsayed

#25. The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.

Bryant McGill

#26. I think the first thing you should learn is how to roast a chicken. Once you can roast a chicken, you can pretty much figure out anything else. And who doesn't like roasted chicken? It's a classic.

Haylie Duff

#27. I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it.'

Joss Whedon

#28. I don't believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.

Alan Sugar

#29. A star is a person who shines so brightly,who gives their gifts so fully,who loves so completely that everyone is drawn by the light of this star to find the way home.

Chuck Spezzano

#30. And I knew only what all men know, that the cycle of winter and spring and all growing things has within itself some sublime truth that restores without myth or language.

Anne Rice

#31. It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#32. It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

Ramsay MacMullen

#33. I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Henry David Thoreau

#34. Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being.

Euginia Herlihy

#35. In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#36. Your selling point is that unique quality like integrity,teachability, honesty, humility, skill, sagacity, love, self-confidence, vision, compassion and kindness which distinguishes you among your contemporaries.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#37. I don't really believe in regrets.

Wayne Newton

#38. Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.

Nick Harkaway

#39. PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

Greg Graffin