Quotes About Human

What Lovecraft did do, better than anyone, was radically decenter the human experience from the art of fiction.

is entirely possible that the abduction phenomenon is nothing at all to do with us, and that we have simply been caught up in events which are beyond human understanding.

We fear the monster's capacity for evil because we recognize it in human hearts.

the neuro- in neurodiversity is most usefully understood as referring not just to the brain but to the entire nervous system–and, by extension, to the full complexity of human cognition and the central role the nervous system plays in the embodied dance of consciousness"(Walke2021, p. 55).

Her mother sighed, then smiled a slow, regretful, entirely human smile that made Hild like her.

Light is a comfort, a human thing, and it pleases me. It reminds me I'm mortal.

An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition. It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.

Between the anarchy of instincts and the tyranny of norms there extends the fleeting and pure territory of human perfection.

Der Reaktionär irrt, wenn er annimmt, daß der Demokrat sein Gründe ablehnt, aber seinen Widerwillen teilt. Der moderne Welt ist ein Schweinestall, in dessen Morast der Mensch von heute sich fröhlich wälzt.

Man emerges from the beast when he orders his instincts hierarchically.

Let us respect the two poles of man: concrete individual, human spirit. But not the middle zone of an animal with opinions.

Human problems are neither exactly definable, nor remotely solvable. He who expects Christianity to solve them has ceased to be a Christian.

In general, "historical necessity" turns out to be merely a name for human stupidity.

History is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence "Freedom," but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences.

Even between fanatical egalitarians, the briefest encounter reestablishes human inequalities.

Gnosticism and Christianity start from the same point, but go in different directions. From the same definition of the human condition, Christianity infers that man is a creature, while the Gnostic infers he is a god.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

L'homme, dans l'état actuel de la société, me paraît plus corrompu par sa raison que par ses passions. Ses passions (j'entendes ici celles qui appartiennent à l'homme primitif) ont conservé, dans l'ordre social, le peu de nature qu'on y retrouve encore.

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

Nature deals in non-uniform shapes and rough edges. Take the human form. There is a certain symmetry about it, but it is, and has always been, indescribable in terms of Euclidean geometry.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

What a strange creature man is! He does not believe in God, but he does believe that if the bridge of is nose itches he is surely going to die;

Satanism represents opposition to hypocrisy, every human being feels rage, every human being feels anger, and we feel it is natural to express that anger in a healthy way.