#chin

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing. ↗

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

#machine #nature #nature

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#human-nature #logic #philosophy #reason #nature

The machines are too dull when we are lion-poems that move & breathe. ↗

— Michael McClure

#lion #machines #nature #poems #poetry

Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship? ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#mothers #women #relationship

It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#peeta-mellark #science-fiction #science

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#teacher

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. ↗

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#searching #travel #travel

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. ↗