Quotes About Human

Perhaps the human race had yet to be born. Perhaps it was all a deception by the government. It hadn't happened yet. This life was nothing but the womb.

Paganism takes the position that human beings are unflawed in their natures, are not spiritually doomed or damned, are born with all the tools and skills necessary to live ethically and spiritually, and are naturally oriented toward their own greatest growth and development. No

And isn't it amazing that suicide is illegal when society is so indifferent to human life?

Wisdom is a unique manifestation of God, a catalyst for transformation of the human person's life into one of fight and goodness.

ciencia está aún empezando a poner el pie en el umbral de la mente humana

the two evolutionary lines, ours and the Neanderthals', both developed such large brains, and perhaps other characteristics in common, because we exchanged genes.

Dos factores son cruciales para entender la expansión y reestructuración cerebral de los humanos. Uno de ellos, un cambio en la alimentación con la incorporación regular de proteínas animales, lo hizo posible. Otro factor, el aumento de la complejidad social, le dio sentido. La inteligencia se desarrolló, en gran medida, como inteligencia social.

El pretexto de elevar lo inferior siempre disfraza la pulsión de deprimir lo superior. A la postre, en todos los intentos de hacer a los animales titulares de derecho descubrimos el propósito de suprimir la realidad espiritual específica del hombre

What did she love Shelley for? His reckless spontaneity -- like this. His helpless generous nature -- like this. His treatment of her as a reasonable human being and not a trembling little rose -- and so on. If she loved him for these things, could she hate him for them? Could she?

I conjecture, that human intuition is organized around casual, not statistical, relations.

Counterfactuals are the building blocks of moral behavior as well as scientific thought. The ability to reflect on one's past actions and envision alternative scenarios is the basis of free will and social responsibility. The algorithmization of counterfactuals invites thinking machines to benefit from this ability and participate in this (until now) uniquely human way of thinking about the world.

According to Taoist belief, any fox that attains fifty years of age can shape-shift into a standard human.

Survivors of atrocity of every age and every culture come to a point in their testimony where all questions are reduced to one, spoken more in bewilderment than in outrage: Why? The answer is beyond human understanding.

Cruelty, like lying, repels instantly and easily because it is 'ugly.' It is a vice that disfigures human characters, not a transgression of a divine or human rule.

It is true that most of these men were closeted transgressors, while Colette played out her revolt in public. They were secretly attracted by her vital force. Their languor and formality were alien to her—but not their fetish worship of human beauty.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Die Natur ist pragmatisch. Jedes Tier ist pragmatisch. Der Mensch ist es dort, wo ihm die Ideen ausgegangen sind.

Was den Menschen vom Tier unterschied, war die Fähigkeit, im Angesicht der Katastrophe "Siehste!" zu denken.

Warten ist Gegenwart. Das generelle Verhältnis des Menschen zur Zeit. Warten zeichnet Gottes Umrisse an die Wand. Warten ist jenes Durchgangsstadium, das wir als unsere Existenz bezeichnen!

The Stoics think that there are no parts or divisions to the human soul, and that it is all rational. (By the soul they mean the item that makes humans live in a characteristically human way.) Emotions are not blind, non-rational forces which can overcome rational resolve; they are themselves a kind of reason which the person determines to act on.

the effort to uphold human dignity within this concept of food ministry is not to be underestimated.

Sin duda ella seguía empeñada en Marvin pero eso no quitaba que sintiera atracción por Naseef, de la misma manera que él estaba enamorado de ella pero se sentía atraído por Zahra. Así de complicada es el alma humana.

Nuestra revolución partió de una premisa y es que la vida humana no es algo extraordinario y santificarla es cosa de las religiones, y aquí hemos decretado la muerte de Dios.