Quotes About Humans

the fact that early humans did decorate corpses, lay out the bodies in particular postures or bury people with flowers, aligned horns or tools would support the notion that some ritualization of death is a very ancient human activity.

O desejo de se sentir importante é uma das principais características que distinguem os homens dos animais.

El mundialmente famoso psicólogo B. F. Skinner comprobó, mediante experimentación con animales, que premiando la buena conducta los animales aprenden más rápido y retienen con más eficacia que castigando la mala conducta. Estudios posteriores probaron lo mismo aplicado a los seres humanos.

But there is nothing in Scripture to indicate that the biblical modes of God's communication with humans have been superseded or abolished by either the presence of the church or the close of the scriptural canon. This

Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?

The most amazing part," Katherine said, "is that as soon as we humans begin to harness our true power, we will have enormous control over our world. We will be able to design reality rather than merely react to it.

Early humans," Langdon lectured on-screen, "had a relationship of wonder with their universe, especially with those phenomena they could not rationally understand.

arcane knowledge capable of imbuing humans with mystical

It is quite common for humans to sentimentalize their relationships with synthetic intelligences

People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information.

I retitled my poem The Hyperion Cantos. It was not about the planet but about the passing of the self-styled Titans called humans. It was about the unthinking hubris of a race which dared to murder its homeworld through sheer carelessness and then carried that dangerous arrogance to the stars...

head. "The Core has devised a parasitic, organic device called the cruciform," she said. "It Ã¢â'¬Â¦ brings back Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the dead. After a few generations, the humans will be retarded, listless, and without a future, but their neurons will still serve Core purposes." Singh

Westereners often think that the East is one vast Buddhist temple, which is rather like thinking the West is one vast Carthusian monastery. If the [Western people who like Buddhism] were to visit the East, he'd certainly experience many new things, but he'd find first, that the food is under lock and key and second, that humans are considered to be a miserable, destructive, greedy lot, just as they are in the West.

Among the primates only humans are hunters, because among the primates only humans have the biological equipment to make hunting a mainstay of life—and that equipment is strictly intellectual.

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

The fundamental conflict of our time is that between the creaturely life of Nature's world and the increasingly mechanical life of modern humans.

Discussions about technology—its capacity, what it can and cannot do, what it should and should not do—are the reverse side of the coin to debates on the capacity, ability, and moral entitlements of humans. Attempts

Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It's the surplus of animal fear, it's never indicated, it's nothing but itself.

I listened mesmerized, visualizing the goddess with her divine mate, wondering if it was possible for humans to replicate this perfect relationship. Would I be blessed with such a love in my life?

I would approach the problem aslant. No matter what my father's intention, I could still make Arjun's heart beat faster. I could still influence how he thought. Perhaps Time was the master player. But within the limits allowed to humans in this world the sages called unreal, I would be a player, too.

Animals were superior to most humans. Men would have turned away once you had nothing more to give them.

I was learning more about the twisted paths along which love swept us humans along than I'd ever expected—or wanted.

Marshall identified the key message in these wildlife shows as being that "animals are vicious, so humans are justified in using any means to subdue them.