Nature of man Quotes · Page 295

It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not…

— Steven Weinberg

“Human infants," writes psychologist Martin Seligman, "begin life more helpless than infants of any other species. In the course of the next…

— Les Parrott III

“When I come to the country I cease to view man as separate from the rest. As the river runs through many…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“One is the notion that knowledge is worth acquiring, all knowledge, and that a solid grounding in mathematics provides one with the…

— William H. Patterson Jr

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then…

— Sigmund Freud

“Handcrafted Humanity Sonnet 12 Here are some words born of narrowness, Activist, woke, religious, atheist, Socialist, communist, capitalist, conservative, Intellectual, intelligent, classy,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“This new situation, in which "humanity" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or history, would mean in this…

— Hannah Arendt

The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against…

— Justin Rosenstein

If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then…

— Albert Einstein

“The fall of humanity was the fall from the actual to the symbolic. Language abstracts us from the real world; keeping us…

— Tony Vigorito

Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces…

— Peace Pilgrim

“Aren’t humans amazing? They kill wildlife – birds, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice and foxes by the million…

— David Coates

Human beings did not have rights. Human beings created, from nothing, the domain of human rights. They called it up. They languaged…

— Werner Erhard

The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals…

— Kenny Smith

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.…

— Mark Twain

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting…

— Anonymous

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only…

— Octavio Paz

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.…

— Albert Schweitzer

Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false…

— Marc Bekoff

“the religious models that had existed up until then did not adequately prepare us. Only through a process of radical self-empowerment—which Ikeda,…

— Clark Strand

It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate…

— Oscar Wilde

“Beware of the pursuit of the Superhuman: it leads to an indiscriminate contempt for the Human. To a man, horses and dogs…

— Oliver Benjamin

It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to…

— Noel Coward

Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes…

— Fritjof Capra

Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully…

— Leo Strauss

“On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was…

— Victor Hugo

“Some primal instinct tells the parent, or the person down on their luck, than if we let it go — the child's…

— Bobby Underwood

It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“The naturalist E. O. Wilson gave a name to this warm, fuzzy feeling I’m experiencing: biophilia. He defined it as “the innately…

— Eric Weiner

Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We're all human beings. Experience is experience, let's just be honest. Let's not try and dissect suffering into a race, or whatever…

— Idris Elba

Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as…

— L. Neil Smith

“Can human nature be so entirely transformed inside and out? Can man, created by God, be made wicked by man? Can a…

— Victor Hugo

My favorite single line from the Qur’an is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that…

— Eboo Patel

“But here's the most incredible thing about it: the philosopher isn't proposing that as a concept; he's simply articulating what humans believe…

— Sabina Berman

Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be…

— Isaac Asimov

Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form…

— Wendell Berry

Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one…

— Peter O'Toole

“These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of…

— Edmund Burke