Nature of man Quote by Daniel Quinn

““Human thought is thought that opens up into the future, and the future is inescapably the domain of the gods.””

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“Because we imagine that we are what humanity was divinely destined to become, we assume that our prehistoric ancestors were trying to be us,…

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The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and we're them…

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“[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule…

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The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

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“Pharaohs It took Khufu twenty-three years to build his Great Pyramid at Giza, where some eleven hundred stone blocks, each weighing about two and…

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Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks…

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“Many peoples practiced agriculture, but they were never obsessed by the delusion that what they were doing was *right*, that everyone in the entire…

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“No undesirable behavior has ever been eliminated by passing a law against it.”

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“How easy it is first to leap to a false conclusion about someone and then to view everything he does in light of that…

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Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're…

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During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way,…

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“Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so…

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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

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“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a…

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

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“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.”

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Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

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“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.…

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Humans are animals too, but some do not like to work from expectations.

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Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our…

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Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

James A. Garfield

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Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,…

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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Every human creates his own problems. Problems are ones private property and we shouldnt meddle into them self-initiatively.

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