#beings

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#beings #crave #feel #going #great

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#beings #creating #imagining #intelligent #people

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#based #be different #beings #difference #different

These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#because #beings #best #bird #bits

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#binds #common #compassion #future #hope

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. ↗

— Rollo May

#based #being #beings #dignity #emotion

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. ↗

— Evo Morales

#cannot #earth #human #human beings #humans

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#beings #each #how #human #human beings

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#apiece #beings #emotions #fixed #human