Humans Quotes
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I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.
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Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.
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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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The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population that followed World War II. By this account, it's with the introduction of modern technologies—turbines, railroads, chainsaws—that humans became a world-altering force. But the megafauna extinction suggests otherwise. Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever did.
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Everything which is human is alien to me.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.
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When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.
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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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There's an ancient bond that still exists today between horses and humans, it is even there with people that have never ridden a horse or been around horses. The horse is what settled the entire west. If it weren’t for the horse they’d probably be only a couple hundred miles from where they started. A lot of people don’t realize how much they owe the horse because it’s not so much a part of our culture right now as it used to be.
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What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.
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The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.
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Jesus did not have human blood: He was born of the virgin Mary with the divine blood of His Father.
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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.
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Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.
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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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Humans - a renewable resource.
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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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My favorite single line from the Quran is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.
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If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.
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It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
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As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.
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There is something about the human condition. I don't think dogs are like "If only I was a poodle instead of a golden retriever, I'd be totally happy." Dogs are happy with who they are.
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Work done by human beings for human beings.
