Quotes About Humans

Humans are big animals, but it takes an immense effort just to capture a few of them. The hunted are as alert, evasive, and as well-informed about hunting as the hunters.

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

Digamos entonces que el alma se asemeja al poder conjunto de un tronco de corceles alados y un auriga. Pues bien, los caballos y los cocheros de los dioses son del mismo genio y de la misma casta, pero los de los hombres son distintos [...]

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.

You understand quite completely that the main lesson of history is: humans don't learn from history. The twenty-first century could still turn out to be a bad cover version of the twentieth, but what could we do? People's minds across the world were filling with utopias that could never overlap. It was a recipe for disaster, but, alas, a familiar one. Empathy was waning, as it often had. Peace was made of porcelain, as it always was.

Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.

The truth is, you see, however much they would beg to disagree humans don't actually like to win. Or rather, they like winning for ten seconds, but if they keep on winning, they end up actually having to think about other things, like life and death. The only thing humans like less than winning is losing, but at least something can be done about that. With absolute winning, there is nothing to be done. They just have to deal with it.

Even before I had fully discovered the concepts of astrology, homeopathy, organised religion and probiotic yoghurts I was able to work out that what humans may have lacked in physical attractiveness, they made up for in gullibility.

Love is what the humans are all about but they don't understand it. If they understood it, then it would disappear.

I was able to work out that what humans may have lacked in physical attractiveness, they made up for in gullibility. You could tell them anything in a convincing-enough voice and they would believe it. Anything, of course, except the truth.

This was jazz music. It was full of the complexity and contradictions that I would soon learn made humans human.

The world is what we recognize in our own will. Humans are ruled by their basic desires and lead to suffering and pain, because our desires make us crave things from the world but the world is nothing but representation. Because those same cravings shape what we see. We end up feeding from ourselves, until we go mad.

the main lesson of history is: humans don't learn from history.

I would later discover this was one of the key problems humans had with numerical understanding—their nervous systems simply weren't up to it.

I know that some of you reading this are convinced humans are a myth, but I am here to state that they do actually exist. For those that don't know, a human is a real bipedal lifeform of mid-range intelligence, living a largely deluded existence on a small water-logged planet in a very lonely corner of the universe.

The cold was a shock. The cold hurt my lungs, and the harsh wind beating against my skin caused me to shake. I wondered if humans ever went outside. They must have been insane if they did.

London, now You understand quite completely that the main reason of history is : humans don't learn from history. The twenty-first century could still turn out to a bad cover version of the twentieth, but what could we do? People's minds across the world were filling with utopias that could never overlap. It was a recipe for disaster, but, alas, a familiar one. Empathy was waning, as it often had. Peace was made of porcelain, as it always was. -how to stop time- C'est vrai.

Nora wanted to live in a world where cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them.

Yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So, if they believed in themselves - the logic must go - why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?

Because if you believe in them as fact, you are saying the thing that every unpopular scientific breakthrough in history has said." "Which is what?" "That humans are not at the center of things.

because they believed in free will. Ha! Humans

I'd also heard that humans were a life-form of, at best, middling intelligence and prone to violence, deep sexual embarrassment, bad poetry, and walking around in circles.

here's a toast to Alan Turing born in harsher, darker times who thought outside the container and loved outside the lines and so the code-breaker was broken and we're sorry yes now the s-word has been spoken the official conscience woken – very carefully scripted but at least it's not encrypted – and the story does suggest a part 2 to the Turing Test: 1. can machines behave like humans? 2. can we?