Humans Quotes
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There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?
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Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.
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We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.
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Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.
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Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.
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Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect to know the most about, the actions of our fellow humans.
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.
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The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
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In fact, the American Mastodon vanished around thirteen thousand years ago. Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.
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Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you have the right to treat her exactly as you please because she didn’t adhere to your archaic views of feminine propriety is misogyny, plain and simple.
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Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.
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Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.
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The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
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Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
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Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
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Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.
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To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.
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The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.
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Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.
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Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.
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We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
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Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
