Condescension Quote by Ludwig von Mises

“you are the same as an insect, just with a more complex nervous system responding to stimuli with a wider array of denser behavioral…

— David McRaney

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

— Virginia Woolf

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

— Kevin J. Anderson

As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I know I sound a little crazy when I say that, but really, you get a glimpse of these bugs as they go about…

— wildbow

Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have…

— Guillermo del Toro

Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“From Hellstrom’s Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter. This fixed…

— Frank Herbert

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to…

— Charles Darwin

“Humans do not possess a single, focused will. In their hearts, they have countless bugs, buzzing in all directions. There are times when all…

— Kouhei Kadono

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

— Isabella Rossellini

I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is…

— Lewis Thomas