The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

- Mahatma Gandhi

She said being human is being a young child on Christmas Day who receives an absolutely magnificent castle. And there is a perfect photograph of this castle on the box and you want more than anything to play with the castle and the knights and the princesses because it looks like such a perfectly human world, but the only problem is that the castle isn’t built. It’s in tiny intricate pieces, and although there’s a book of instructions you don’t understand it. And nor can your parents or Aunt Sylvie. So you are just left, crying at the ideal castle on the box which no one would ever be able to build

- Matt Haig, The Humans

I learned many things about human nature, but one of the greatest is the nobility inherent within us all, for one of the greatest things about being human is the ability to be humane

- Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out

What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!

- Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess

- Munia Khan

One of the biggest differences between humans and trees is simply that humans burn trees.

- M. Jackson, While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change

It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human.

- Tim Mann artist

I was wrong to try and impose something of my humanity on you, when being human never did me any good

- Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Maybe the real issue here is that we were not created to do life by ourselves. We were not given a sentence of solitary confinement and placed in a world of isolation, but from the moment we entered this human experience, it was clear there was a world waiting to be discovered, creatures which were there for our interaction. And the spark inside us often has to be spoken to, to be touched by the soul of another. It’s as if the spark is only visible through the lens of night vision, a set of goggles which only another human being can hand to us.

- Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human

In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation--that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive--belongs to the particularity of being human.

- Christos Yannaras, Relational Ontology