What It Means To Be Human Quotes by Daniel Levitin, Rob Bell, Patrick Rothfuss, Patricia Piccinini, James Luther Adams, Kelly McGonigal and many others.
The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth…. A mother’s love isn’t cliché, it’s universal. These things are archetypes. They’re the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.
How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with – and responsibilities towards – that which we create.
Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.
The development of willpower -I will, I won’t and I want- may define what it means to be human.
Because I can’t seem to escape it. It’s a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.
Ultimately, the transgender question is about more than just sex. It’s about what it means to be human.
Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.
Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.
If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.
If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say different things about what it means to be human if you can contrast that to what it means to be a robot, or an alien, or an elf.
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human… and we are the people driving that change.
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I’d say it’s this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation.
Running is the heart of what it means to be human.
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