Certain Quote by Franz Boas

“There is no proof that the groups of mankind differ in their innate mental characteristics or intellectual capacity or that there is any connection…

— Paul A. Offit

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a…

— Mark Twain

What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective…

— Peter Singer

In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

— Hillel the Elder

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in…

— Herman Melville

Existence has no personality. No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is. To experience existence as it is, is to know the…

— Rajneesh

“It would be very peculiar if a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think…

— Hans Eysenck

Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for…

— Rollo May

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

— Erik Erikson

“At certain times in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned to master…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how…

— Robert Musil

Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all…

— Jonathan Nolan