Humans Quotes

• 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.

  

  Edwin A. Locke
  • Ability
  • Evolution
  • Species

• 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.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Facts
  • Century
  • Descent

• Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Humans
  • Machines

• Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

  

  David Buss
  • Competition
  • Evolution
  • Murder

• Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Animal
  • Humans
  • Currents

• 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.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Criminal
  • Categories
  • Not-yet-criminal

• It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally uncommon that God is apprehended in experience. Nor, in fact, can the divine and human meeting happen any other way. God is not a God of the pulpit, though the pulpit proclaim him. He is a God in and of the histories of humankind. What is significant is that I should have to say so.

  

  Walter Wangerin
  • Father
  • Meetings
  • Significant

• Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.

  

  Brenda Peterson
  • Knowledge
  • Experiences
  • Scientist

• To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Humans

• "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.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Universe
  • Years
  • Philosophy

• Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.

  

  Mohsin Hamid
  • Trying
  • Expression
  • Normal

• The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Perfect
  • Facts
  • Faults

• Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from being distant or "sacred" to being more human, because then I think it becomes easier to feel like poetry belongs to us, is for us, is from us.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Work done by human beings for human beings.

  

  William Lethaby
  • Done
  • Humans
  • Beings

• Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

  

  Anton Webern
  • Humans
  • Products
  • Particular

• 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.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Interesting
  • Taboo
  • Angle

• When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

  

  Brian Swimme
  • Humans
  • Objects

• Anything is possible, and the truth is any human being at any given moment, no matter how good they are - not only at their job but also as a person - they're capable of anything, and it's not always a conscious thing.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Moments
  • Conscious
  • Given

• The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

  

  Michael Caine
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Enough

• The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

  

  Rollo May
  • Struggle
  • Humans
  • Creative

• The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

  

  William H. Prescott
  • Literature
  • Humans

• People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

  

  Henry Selick
  • Critics
  • Harsh
  • Animated

• As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Nature
  • Protected
  • Farms

• 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.

  

  Barry B. Longyear
  • Interest
  • Illusion
  • Fairness

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