# Quote — Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

> To be human is to seek beauty.

- Author: [Brandon Sanderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson.md)
- Book: [Words of Radiance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance.md)
- Page: 528
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Words_of_Radiance_(2014)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance/to-be-human

## More from this book

> “I have to protect him,” Kaladin whispered.
>
> Why?
>
> “If I protect …” He coughed. “If I protect…only the people I like, it means that I don’t care about doing what is right.” If he did that, he only cared about what was convenient for himself.
>
> That wasn’t protecting. That was selfishness.

p. 1014 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance/i-have-to-protect.md)

> To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.

p. 901 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance/to-age-truly.md)

> Adeline placed the glyphward in the brazier, then bowed his head as it burned. A prayer to the Almighty for aid. His combatants for the day would probably be burning their own prayers. How did the Almighty decide whom to help?

p. 655 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance/adeline-placed-the.md)