Quotes About Human

She seeks to place herself above the sympathies of our common nature, which envelopes all human souls. See if that nature do not assert its claim over her in some mode that shall bring her level with the lowest!

It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide—but so quickly close again!

Com'è facile cadere per un essere umano, non trovi? mormorò, e Masako le rivolse uno sguardo pieno di compassione. Sì. Poi è come scendere precipitosamente per una china con una bicicletta senza freni. Vuoi dire che nessuno riesce più a fermarti? Sì. A meno che non si vada a sbattere contro qualcosa

The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.

Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called 'pigheadedness'.

It all came back to human time and utterly human impulses: in the end, gods did not appreciate godlike power, but humans did.

You have to factor in the human propensity for simplification, Sverl, and for their inability to believe in their own demise and unimportance. It's the impulse behind the religions—

So, if you're asking me if it's possible for you to make errors in judgement, the answer is yes. You make errors all the time... as does every other human being who has ever lived. Error is an intrinsic part of the human condition - and it is something I deeply love about humankind.

I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential.

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

As a kid you idolize your parents. You think they're perfect, because they're the yardstick by which you measure the rest of the world, and yourself. Then as a teenager they just piss you off, because you realize that not only are they not perfect, but they may be even a little more screwed up than you. But there's that moment when you realize they're not superheroes, or villains. They're painfully, unforgivably human. The question is, can you forgive them for being human anyway?

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

Appointments? You can't be serious. With all due respect, they have the cognitive capacity of chimpanzees right now.- -And if we want to change that, we will start treating them as human beings, not a mob of apes.-

Tonight we witness the spectacle of human folly and tragedy," he said. "Tomorrow, we shall live it.

power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature

The Sky; that black lid of a mighty pot, Where, vast and minute, human Races boil.

La moda, pues, debe considerarse un síntoma del gusto por lo ideal que flota en el cerebro humano por encima de todo cuanto la vida natural deposita en él de grosero, de terrestre y de inmundo, como una deformación sublime de la naturaleza, o más bien como un intento permanente y sucesivo de reformar la naturaleza. También

elemento, que es como la envoltura entretenida, estimulante, atractiva, del dulce divino, el primer elemento sería indigerible, inapreciable, inapropiado y no apto para la naturaleza humana.

Crime, the taste for which the human animal acquired in his mother's belly, is originally natural. Virtue, on the contrary, is artificial, supernatural, since in all times and nations, gods and prophets were necessary to teach it to animalized man, and since man alone would have been powerless to discover it. Evil is done without effort, naturally, by fatality.

Qu'est-ce que le cerveau humain, sinon un palimpseste immense et naturel?

Have you ever been in love? Love is for real people.

the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

we waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nights our silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

stood a supervisor, another Stone, and he had this look on his face—they must practice it in front of mirrors, all the supervisors had this look on their faces—they looked at you as if you were a hunk of human shit.