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Human Quotes by Dan Simmons
- There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have…
- Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another…
- How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?
- Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any…
- She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out…
- Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence…
- A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water…
- Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological…
- Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.
- To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in…
- Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.
- In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle