Quotes About Beings

Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

Holly. In the name of all the gods, stop shooting energy into all-energy beings. Just how stupid are you? The bots quivered and meshed, growing larger and more aggressive.

Il linguaggio umano è, in fondo, il grande scandalo della natura: il linguaggio umano costringe a riconoscere una discontinuità immotivata e improvvisa tra gli esseri viventi.

We are making music for the human race, and even beings from other galaxies are welcome to vibe with us.

Oriental reality is called ideology in Europe and America, and Western ideology is called reality in the Orient. Those viewpoints eat into people's souls and form two distinct kinds of beings.

There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis.

If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.

Gods, the pamphlets asserted, were not supernatural beings, but tenuously living things, like ethereal plants, that evolved in concert with the human species. We were simply their medium—our brains and flesh the soil in which they sprouted and grew.

The spiritual path has no negative emotions and we are spiritual beings having human experience. The experiences need courage to complete the cleansing process. It defines the design that conforms to the external definitions of what we are.

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has been said, essentially in showing the world as opaque, as inaccessible to reason on principle. This happens when Piranesi in his imagined prisons depicts a world peopled by other beings than those for which it was created. (On the Fantastic in Literature)

For Cortés, the conquest was a struggle of good against evil, of the true god against false gods, of superior beings against inferior beings.

was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?

Superfast beings shouldn't piss off the comics geek-girl.

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

Understanding (not necessarily acceptance) is vital in dealing with other people, whether those people are human, Simiu, Mizari, or energy beings.

But I believe. I believe that once we were ruled by beings so evil that even their own shadows shied away from them.

It's unavoidable: so long as we value money more highly than living beings and more highly than relationships, we will continue to see living beings as resources, and convert them to cash; objectifying, killing, extirpating. This is true whether we're talking about fish, fur-bearing mammals, Indians, day-laborers, and so on. If monetary value is attached to something it will be exploited until it's gone.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.