Homo Quotes
109 quotes by 88 authors
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
— Henri Bergson
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -…
— William S. Burroughs
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The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves…
— E. O. Wilson
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Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my…
— Leo Baekeland
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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or…
— Maya Angelou
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What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences…
— J. William Fulbright
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The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo…
— Arthur Koestler
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Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best…
— Jacques Barzun
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We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been…
— Marston Bates
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These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot…
— E. O. Wilson
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What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.
— Estelle Ramey
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What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of…
— Peter Singer
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There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is…
— Desmond Morris
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The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy…
— David Graeber
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Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency…
— Rosy Cole
Who Wrote These Homo Quotes
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