Humans Quotes
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Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.
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Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.
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Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.
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Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
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Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
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. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.
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We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.
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Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.
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Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.
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If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
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So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
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The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.
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Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
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We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but also by hearing, by feeling, by our sense of body motion and position. Our geometric and spatial skills are highly trainable, just as in other high-performance activities. In mathematics we can use the modules of our minds in flexible ways - even metaphorically. A whole-mind approach to mathematical thinking is vastly more effective than the common approach that manipulates only symbols.
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
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Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.
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For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine.
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The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.
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I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.
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Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.
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Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
