Quotes About Human

Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

No one goes back to the husband. He knew that much about love and human nature.

The trouble with ideology, Alice, is that it hates the private. You must make it human.

Still, this was broken stone. It was not a human life.

as human beings, we must inevitably see the universe from a centre lying within ourselves and speak about it in terms of a human language shaped by the exigencies of human intercourse. Any attempt rigorously to eliminate our human perspective from our picture of the world must lead to absurdity.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter.

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

Much like a food, a psychoactive drug is not a thing — without a human brain, it is inert — so much as it is a relationship; it takes both a molecule and a mind to make anything happen.

Cooking is no longer obligatory, and that marks a shift in human history, one whose full implications we're just beginning to reckon.

the very open-endedness of human appetite is responsible for both our savagery and civility, since the creature that conceive of eating anything (including, notably, other humans) stands in particular need of ethical rules, manners, and rituals. we are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.

nature (including the human mind) still holds deep mysteries toward which science can sometimes seem arrogant and unjustifiably dismissive.

Weed" is not a category of nature but a human construct, a defect of our perception.

In wildness is the preservation of the world, Thoreau once wrote; a century later, when many of the wild places are no more, Wendell Berry has proposed this necessary corollary: In human culture is the preservation of wildness.

To trim, I decided, is human, which probably explains the modernists' contempt for it. Because if we're not using trim to hide our poor craftsmanship, we're using it to proclaim our fine craftsmanship—either way, sloth or pride, trim embodies the most human of failings and thereby spoils the supreme objectivity that modernists strove for.

these remarkable mushrooms produce, in addition to spores, meanings in human minds.

Humboldt believed it is only with our feelings, our senses, and our imaginations—that is, with the faculties of human subjectivity—that we can ever penetrate nature's secrets. "Nature everywhere speaks to man in a voice" that is "familiar to his soul.

Solomon Katz put forth the arresting theory that it was the human desire for a steady supply of alcohol, not food, that drove the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement. Beer, in other words, came before bread, and as soon as people got a taste of it, Katz reasoned, they would have wanted more than could be produced by gathering seeds or fruits or honey.

How do the alchemies of the kitchen transform the raw stuffs of nature into some of the great delights of human culture?

I explored at some length what I had been surprised to discover is a universal human desire to change consciousness

What existential difference is there between the human being's role in this (or any) garden and the bumblebee's

Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you 'admit to.' It is not something you have to blush about; it is a human experience. It is not you. It is simply something that happens to you.

Albert Brooks. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Larry David. The best comedic actors play broad and real simultaneously, coming across as both larger than life and all too human.

Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.