Humans Quotes
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Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice.
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There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.
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Witches didn't need blood to survive, but humans didn't need wine, either.
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Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.
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I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
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I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make use of that gift. It's very important that you don't let the muscle get flabby. It's really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid.
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And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.
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Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
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I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.
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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
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The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.
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We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.
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The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.
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Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is outside: that it is definitely not "rolled up inside us" but our way of being one with our fellows and our world. I call this field theory.
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For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.
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The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.
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I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.
