Humans Quotes
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As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.
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It is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.
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If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.
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We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do.
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When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."
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The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
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When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.
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In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.
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Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
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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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People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
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There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.
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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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We are turning everything on this planet into food for humans. We'll eat it and, if we can't eat it, we'll kill it and take its place and just move it out of the way.
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The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
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It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.
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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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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.
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The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
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Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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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.
