Quotes About Humans

The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.

It is the height of illogic to think that humans originated from anything with lower functionality than themselves—from a something instead of a Someone.

I wondered if, now that she was a vampire, she had forgotten her connection to my world, the world of humans and of witches. I turned to Rafe. He was a sensible, intelligent vampire. Surely he could see what was going on here. "Rafe. Tell them this isn't fair. I need more time to prepare." He shrugged his elegant shoulders. "I never get involved in witch matters.

But wolves, Rick felt, were more like humans than they were given credit for, in their tribal ways and territoriality; in their tendency to mate for life; and in the way male wolves provided food and care for their offspring, so unusual in the animal world. He loved to quote the early-twentieth-century English philosopher Carveth Read: "Man, in character, is more like a wolf… than he is any other animal.

One of the reasons humans tended toward insanity was the weight of fear they carried. The blessings of storytelling, the handing down of knowledge and warnings, had a flip side. People carried the collective fears of their history, the biases of those long dead, the paranoias of other ages. Anna flashed

simple point is that institutions are to humans what hives are to bees. They are the structures within which we organize ourselves as groups. You know when you are inside one, just as a bee knows when it is in the hive. Institutions have boundaries, often walls. And, crucially, they have rules.

They say suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. he problem with being humas isn't really so temporary

we carry within us innate proclivities that reflect our natural social state, a state that is, as it turns out, primarily good, practically and even morally. Humans can no more make a society that is inconsistent with these positive urges than ants can suddenly make beehives.

False news spreads farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it."31

There is precisely zero scientific evidence demonstrating wolves, unlike ourselves, have ever driven any species to extinction. Of course, no antiwolf advocate points to the unrestricted slaughter and habitat reduction, not by wolves but by humans, that speeded the demise of those great herds of bison, deer, and elk reported by Lewis and Clark.

Of course, no antiwolf advocate points to the unrestricted slaughter and habitat reduction, not by wolves but by humans, that speeded the demise of those great herds of bison, deer, and elk reported by Lewis and Clark.

Perhaps the most significant contact was with Jesus, who revealed that he was himself an extraterrestrial. Jesus told him that extraterrestrials were living on Earth, and mixing freely with humans, from whom they were physically

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behaviour of humans and animals.

The Human Contradiction again. The Contradiction, it was more often called among Oankali. Intelligence and hierarchical behavior. It was fascinating, seductive, and lethal. It had brought Humans to their final war.

It was ... more poison packed tight together in one place than I've ever known. Did Humans make it that way on purpose?

This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

I am." A soft hand stroked his cheek. "I love what you are." "I saw your eyes, D. When I went feral." "Well, yeah. Under the circumstances, I had reason to be afraid. But, for heaven's sake, Tighe, it's your own fault you scare us humans. You guys are so damned secretive, no one knows you even exist. So of

Humans were designed by evolution to live in societies, but they may not understand how societies work.

There's more than just our playful nature that suggests eternal youth has played a role in our evolution. One of the most defining characteristics of humans is our creativity, our willingness to try new things and new ways of interacting with our environment -all traits normally associated with youth.

This tendency to continue exuberant play into adulthood is one of the factors that leads most scientists to consider dogs and humans as "paedomorphic

Because I knew that Samuel—my Samuel who was at that very moment dressing in the backseat—would never stand by and watch a human get hurt. He was the only werewolf I knew who cared that much about mundane humans, just because they were mundane humans

The odour of humans is always a fleshly odour – that is, a sinful odour.