Quotes About Humanity

It frightened me, how close violence is to the civilized surface of a human being. It wasn't the violence itself that was the worry, it was the amount of effort they'd gone to conceal it.

Dat is de grootste troost van 439 jaar oud zijn. Je doorgrondt de belangrijkste les van de geschiedenis: dat mensen niet van de geschiedenis leren. De 21ste eeuw kan uitdraaien op een slechte cover van de 20ste eeuw, maar wat kunnen we er aan doen? Over de hele wereld zijn de hoofden van mensen gevuld met utopieën die elkaar nooit overlappen. Een recept voor mislukking, maar eentje dat we al kennen, helaas. Vrede is van porselein gemaakt, zoals altijd.

For me, reading was never an antisocial activity. It was deeply social. It was the most profound kind of socializing there was. A deep connection to the imagination of another human being. A way to connect without the many filters society normally demands.

You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Don't hoard them like they are precious. There is always plenty of them to go around.

Kindness is a strong force.' 'And rare.' 'You might be looking in the wrong places.' 'Maybe.

A human is a real bipedal lifeform of mid-range intelligence, living a largely deluded existence on a small water-logged planet in a very lonely corner of the universe.

It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.' 'So why live at all?' 'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too. Now, what life do you want to choose next?

We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.

People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of the neck. I don't even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.

And though she'd studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe, it was good to see him.

Cuando te quedas demasiado tiempo en un mismo lugar, olvidas lo gigantesco que es el planeta. Pierdes las referencias y dejas de ser consciente de hasta dónde se extienden los paralelos y los meridianos. Del mismo modo, supuso, uno puede ignorar la vastedad interior de las personas

To be a human is to state the obvious

Maybe we should be looking at how we live, and how our minds weren't made for the lives we lead. Human brains- in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness- are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the stone age.. Maybe instead of worrying about upgrading technology and slowly allowing ourselves to be cyborgs we should have a little peek at how we could upgrade our ability to cope with all this change.

And I stood up, again to help when I was supposed to hurt.

A human being is complete just being human. We are our own destination.

But I think it spotlights the best & more frequently the worst of humanity so that increases my anxiety.

see the act of learning as something not for its own sake but because of what it will get you reduces the wonder of humanity. We are thinking, feeling, art-making, knowledge-hungry, marvelous animals, who understand ourselves and our world through the act of learning. It is an end in itself. It has far more to offer than the things

No. It's about everything. It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.' 'So why live at all?

So, if and when they discover aliens they'd be really pretty unsettled because then we'd have to know, once and for all, that there is nothing really unique or special about us at all.

Robots and computers are taking people's jobs. Employers are taking people's weekends. Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.

When you watch the news and see members of your species in turmoil, do not think there is nothing you can do. But know it is not done by watching the news.

Per goderci la vita forse dovremmo smettere di pensare a quello che non riusciremo mai a leggere, guardare, dire e fare, e iniziare a pensare a come goderci il mondo all'interno dei nostri limiti. A come vivere in una dimensione umana.

Also, orgasms, I realized, were an incredibly big deal. It seemed orgasms were the central tenet of life here. Maybe this was the only meaning humans had on this planet. Their purpose was simply to pursue the enlightenment of orgasm. A few seconds of relief from the surrounding dark.

Stai calmo. Vai avanti. Resta umano. Continua a provarci. Continua a desiderare.