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Humanities Quotes (page 173)

Does everyone just believe what he wants to?"As long as possible. Sometimes longer."What about you?"You mean, am I human? Certainly. I don't believe I'm really old. I believe I'm quite attractive. I believe you seek out my company because you think I'm charming - even when you insist on turning the conversation to physics. Isaac Asimov
Saul Bellow quote: "It never seems to occur to such "criminals" that to behave..."
It never seems to occur to such "criminals" that to behave with decency to another human being might also be "gratuitous. Saul Bellow
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning. Simone de Beauvoir
Whatever the surface appearances, most human beings come equipped with convoluted emotional machinery. With intimacy, the wreckage starts to show, damage rendered in the course of passions colliding like freight trains on the same track. Sue Grafton
Overall, it seems now possible to draw a reasonably good explanation of why the human condition is a singularity, why the likes of it has occurred only once and took so long in coming. The reason is simply the extreme improbability of the preadaptations necessary for it to occur at all. Each of the evolutionary steps has been a full-blown adaptation in its own right. Each has required a particular sequence of one or more preadaptations that occurred previously. Homo sapiens is the only... E. O. Wilson
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. Anthony Bourdain
For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack. Ian Mcewan
Herman Melville quote: "I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed..."
I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty. Herman Melville
Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most ... Charlaine Harris
There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny. Pablo Neruda
Jules Verne quote: "We now know most things that can be measured in this world,..."
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition! Jules Verne
Marlon Brando quote: "Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as..."
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings. Marlon Brando
Marcus Aurelius quote: "When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as..."
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans. Marcus Aurelius
We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their means, that we have raised ourselves above the brutes, to the level of human beings. But we can easily become the victims as well as the beneficiaries of these systems. We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts, which... Aldous Huxley
Joseph Stalin quote: "This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with..."
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity. Joseph Stalin

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