Humans Quotes

• I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Gay
  • Female
  • Liberation

• If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Moments
  • Fire
  • Said

• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

  

  Michael Pollan
  • Should
  • Healthy
  • Complicated

• Communism is in conflict with human nature.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Humans
  • Communism

• I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Growing
  • Musician
  • Critical

• Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

  

  Moshe Vardi
  • Humans
  • Everything
  • Machine

• A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Animal
  • Should
  • Conversation

• The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Facts
  • Psychedelic
  • Astronaut

• 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

• Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Animal
  • Hands
  • Clothes

• The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Progress
  • Humans
  • Individual

• Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Communication
  • Grows
  • Rooms

• Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Knows
  • Emotion
  • Appropriate

• An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Understanding
  • Animal
  • Appreciation

• Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Technology
  • Species
  • Interaction

• Living only in the present isn’t freedom. Living only in the present isn’t even human if you think about it. Humans, unlike any other animal on the planet, remember the past. We understand our nature. And we try to build on both of them. We are an aspirational species; we look to the future.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Remember
  • Freedom
  • Species

• 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."

  

  Will Gluck
  • People
  • Written
  • Jokes

• Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Smart
  • Humans
  • Killed

• I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

  

  Michael Polanyi
  • Knowledge
  • Humans
  • Starting

• Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and . . . everything?

  

  Karen Lord
  • People
  • Important
  • Seems

• I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

  

  Erin Gruwell
  • Proud
  • Taught
  • Labels

• The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Mind
  • Focus
  • Activity

• To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Remember
  • Imagination
  • Emotion

• Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Humans
  • Ends
  • Evening

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