Animal Quote by Siri Hustvedt Download Open image “Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.” — Siri Hustvedt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Animals Human beings Humans Repetition Repetitive
“humans are creatures who give meaning to meaningless actions, and derive purpose from it.” — Kinoko Nasu Copy Share Image
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer. — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Our brains are meaning machines. What we understand as “meaning” is generated by the associations our brain makes between two or more experiences.” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“In the world “out there,” there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving around in… — Duranti a Alessandro Copy Share Image
“Human beings, on the other hand, are symbolic creatures. Inside their heads they break down the outside world into a mass of mental symbols,… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
“Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human". — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
