Humans Quotes
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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
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We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
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To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?
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Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
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People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
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Memetics appears to have a lot of implications that we humans are machines, which people have never liked. Of course we're machines, we're biological machines. But people don't like that. Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. People don't like that. My view is that if these things are true it doesn't matter if we like them or not.
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The answer is: the rational faculty, the ability to conceptualize. This was a giant step in evolution, although there were evidently many intermediate species between the apes and modern humans across a period of perhaps six million years.
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Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.
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When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.
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If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.
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The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
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We don't have the power as humans to determine which day we die. We don't get to make that decision.
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Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
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Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.
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Fairness is an illusion. Neither effort nor intention holds title to the nature or form of either the present or the future. And if the sincere effort has no title, what interest can the bellow or the lamentation hold?" - Davigde. "The humans on Amadeen have a different way of saying it... Tough shit.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it. That said, critiquing women's human shells isn't my thang. Though there's probably something funny or interesting to be said about those who do it, and what that comes from.
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"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it has been in the province of religion and philosophy. Fifty or something years ago, however, it became part of science.
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I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
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The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.
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Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
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I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.
