Humans Quotes
-
Because animals seem to dwell in the present moment, because their own presence is so instinctive, their attention so unwavering, the offer us a different kind of compassion than humans do. Anyone is lucky to have both human and animal comfort in their lives.
-
How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.
-
I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.
-
We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.
-
The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.
-
Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.
-
What's important is to remain human.
-
The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness nor misery nor death. What lies in waiting is a paradise for wolves alone, the unclean humans are no more...come with me Cheza, it is time.
-
I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.
-
Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.
-
I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.
-
Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.
-
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
-
If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.
-
Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.
-
I have never met a dog I couldn't help; however, I have met humans who weren't willing to change.
-
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
-
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
-
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
-
I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.
-
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.
-
Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.
-
Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
-
It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.
