To be human is to question, to feel, to wonder—to rattle the bars of existence and ask what it all means. As Robert Fulghum wrote: “To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, 'what’s it for?’” 💫

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ~ Aristotle

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections—to exercise our imaginations. ~ Katherine Paterson

How embarrassing to be human. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. ~ C.S. Lewis

Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don’t they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet. ~ Dennis Miller

It takes a long time to make a human being. ~ Fr. Edward Pritchard

Every human being is a problem in search of a solution. ~ Ashley Montagu

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. ~ Gertrude Stein

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being. ~ Robert Heinlein

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor. ~ Eric Hoffer

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. ~ Thurgood Marshall

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human. ~ Pablo Casals

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living. ~ Auguste Comte