Human Species Quotes

119 quotes by 104 authors

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. — Thomas Carlyle
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Carl Sagan
Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that… — Maria Montessori
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. — Robert Breault
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the… — Hans Zinsser
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. — George Washington
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the… — Sigmund Freud
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden.… — Georges Bataille
We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has… — Al Gore
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in… — Peter Singer
They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would… — Primo Levi
If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species. — Catherine Breillat
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
Cities are the abyss of the human species. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally… — Hannah Arendt
Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of… — Neil Armstrong
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. — J M Coetzee
I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was… — Prince Philip
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's… — Studs Terkel

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