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Quotes About Humanity

In the wall-less house of sounds, humans became the animals that come together by listening. Whatever else they might be, they are sonospheric communards.
~ Peter Sloterdijk
Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.
~ Peter Sloterdijk
suggesting that, though their situation might be strange , there was nothing new about suffering .
~ Peter Stansky
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.
~ Peter Straub
If people are forced to suppress the emotion of love for their fellow human beings then they certainly can't have love for anything else, including God.
~ Peter Tremayne
We must pardon everyone because if not, it will be like we will have to punish all the population. We must pardon everyone because all ethnic groups did bad acts. (Thirty-eight-year-old female, Nyanza-Lac)
~ Peter Uvin
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. —MARK TWAIN
~ Peter Vronsky
Los seres humanos no podrían soportar una vida carente de sentido.»
~ Peter Watson
For him, humans were born with potential and, given the use of reason and the right upbringing/education, could be ethically good. This was the very opposite of what would become the Christian view under St Augustine and the notion of original sin.
~ Peter Watson
Let's just agree that neither side has a monopoly on assholes. The point is, once you recognize that every human model of reality is fundamentally unreal, then it all just comes down to which one works best.
~ Peter Watts
She can still feel the memory of what it was to be fully human, and mistake that ghost for honest sensation.
~ Peter Watts
Cities are the graveyard of Mankind.
~ Peter Watts
We're not thinking machines, we're—we're feeling machines that happen to think.
~ Peter Watts
It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.
~ Peter Watts
I love other creatures almost as much as I hate people
~ Peter Watts
People aren't rational. You aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're—we're feeling machines that happen to think.
~ Peter Watts
Oh, it might not be perfect. It might be a bit redundant, or resort to the occasional expository infodump. But even real people do that, don't they?
~ Peter Watts
They're not post-Human. Not yet." "How can you tell?" It was only half a joke. "Because otherwise we wouldn't be able to talk to them at all.
~ Peter Watts
Lenie " odzywa siÄ™ Joel "SÅ'ucham?" "PróbowaÅ'aÅ› siÄ™ kiedyÅ› zabi??" "Jasne, jak ka?dy" odpowiada
~ Peter Watts
Grey syndrome.
~ Peter Watts
We're the goddamned Kalashnikovs of thinking meat.
~ Peter Watts
Human nature was becoming an assembly-line edit, Humanity itself increasingly relegated from production to product.
~ Peter Watts
They're not gods," Brüks reminded him softly. "Not yet." "Not ever." "That's denial." "Better than genuflection.
~ Peter Watts
Kimse kimseye ac?masayd?, hiç bir insan ac?nacak halde bulunmazd?.
~ Peyami Safa