Humans Quotes
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
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There is only one race ... and it is human!
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There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it.
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Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.
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Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it.
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Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.
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Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
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The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.
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We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
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The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
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If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
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Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.
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In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined.
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Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.
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Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.
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Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
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You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.
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The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
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...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.
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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other… We are human creatures, meant to be linked… So, yes, it's a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don't know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.
