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Humanities Quotes (page 166)

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them. J. R. R. Tolkien
Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it... Mark Twain
The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans. Barbara Kingsolver
He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family" (73). - Bill Clinton, "Paying Attention Denzel Washington
[From The Old Order]The Grandmother always treated her animal friends as if they were human beings temporarily metamorphosed . . . Katherine Anne Porter
Stephen King quote: "But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow..."
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love. Stephen King
Paulo Coelho quote: "Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love."
Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love. Paulo Coelho
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour, or, indeed, of creating a new sun and a new sky for it to move in. C. S. Lewis
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge. Roger Ebert
The abstract idea of a spirit certainly implies that it has neither substance, form, shape, voice, or anything which can render its presence visible or sensible to human faculties. Walter Scott
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling. Allan Bloom
Anne Lamott quote: " one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people..."
... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65] Anne Lamott
Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself Thomas Pynchon
Man is an everlack, an infinite withoutness, afloat on an apparently endless ocean of apparently endless indifference to individual things. Obscurely he sees catastrophes happening to other rafts, rafts that are too distant for him to determine whether they have other humans aboard, but too numerous and too identical for him to presume that they have not. John Fowles
Though drones, avatars and even humans are one thing; the loss of any is not without moral and diplomatic import, of course, but might be dismissed as merely unfortunate and regrettable, something to be smoothed over through the usual channels. Attacking a ship, on the other hand, is an unambiguous act of war. Iain Banks

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