Quotes About Humans

The odour of humans is always a fleshy odour — that is, a sinful odour.

Pantheism believes that all things are linked in a profound unity. All things have a common origin and a common destiny. All things are interconnected and interdependent. In life and in death we humans are an inseparable part of this unity, and in realizing this we can find our joy and our peace.

Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.

The poem seemed to be about how naturally dignified animals are and how their lives make more sense than those of humans, which are cluttered with greed and self-pity and talk of a distant God.

Time. It was just a human invention. Like numbers. Like measuring things. Just something humans invented to make life a little easier, to order life into manageable blocks, to ease their minds around unmanageable things, to help them with infinity.

some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic. there is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans.

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

Science is so important because it's a way to find truth, but the truth doesn't depend on it. Reality exists outside of humans. Religion does not.

Holy war is not about religion. Holy war is needed by anyone who works for humans or lives among humans, because even the mildest demons can blind you and make you break laws that were meant to protect peace and prosperity of others. Even the tiniest amount of demons can make you harass and attack innocent people in streets, homes, neighborhoods, workplaces and even countries.

The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it.

You are going to have to make considerable adjustments to your culture now you know humans have an immortal soul.

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.