Quotes About Human

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM.

If you let your mind dwell on rooms like this, you could end up being oddly sad and full of a strange diffuse compassion which would lead you to believe that it might be a good idea to wipe out the whole human race and start again with amoebas.

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

The human mind was a deep and abiding mystery and the Librarian was glad he didn't have one anymore.

I thought, in Nature, the defeated animal just rolls on its back in submission and that's the end of it,' said Vimes, as they clattered after the disappearing swamp dragon. 'Wouldn't work with dragons,' said Lady Ramkin. 'Some daft creature rolls on its back, you disembowel it. That's how they look at it. Almost human, really.

Camels have a very democratic approach to the human race. They hate every member of it, without making any distinctions for rank or creed.

The members of the Guild of Assassins considered themselves cultured men who enjoyed good music and food and literature. And they knew the value of human life. To a penny, in many cases.

Human beings have always preferred common sense to logic.

Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so full of wonders they have managed to invent boredom? Quite astonishing!

Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.

They're inventive, I'll grant you. But what I meant was...I mean...they've done nothing to deserve it." " Deserve? They're human . What's deserve got to do with it?

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty, to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in.

Hindsight shows us our blind spots and biases; we can recognize ourselves as human beings caught in the cultural mores of a specific time.

Every human on this earth had secrets.

So while it's true that behavior drives results, it's also true that mindset drives behavior. Consequently, any solution to human problems that ignores this reality ignores too much of what's true to produce reliable results.

a despicable human being." Judge

There is a thirst for Love which no human relation can quench. It is only the Divine's love that can satisfy that thirst. MCW, vol 14, Words Of The Mother II, p.121

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

They are some of the most powerful narratives human beings have produced, about what we most want (beauty, home, bread) and fear (darkness, abandonment, being devoured), which is why they keep being retold and reconfigured.

This obsession with knowledge at the expense of human life, of ordinary human relations and pursuits, will destroy you