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What Makes Us Human Quotes

We will paste upon the curled pages words
Like charming and romantic and sentimental
Forgetting that charming is witchcraft
Romantic is love
And sentiment is what makes us human
- Emilie Autumn

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
- Bryce Courtenay

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.
- Ellen Degeneres

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.
- Joshua Foer

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.
- Thomas Jane

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us humans.
- Masashi Kishimoto

We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science fiction we can approach that mystery, not in small, everyday symbols, but in bigger ones of space and time.
- Damon Knight

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
- Octavio Paz

You see, young Dr. Marion, that's what makes us human. We always want more.
- Abraham Verghese

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