#hum

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#always #center #education #element #else

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working. ↗

— Peter Sellers

#classic example #example #funny #humorists #i

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. ↗

— Carol Shields

#human #i #i think #language #less

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit. ↗

— William Shirley

#cannot #convey #fully #greatness #human

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#basic human rights #become #confidence #daily #daily lives

If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#country #democratic #hands #hearts #hold

I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#difficult #human #human beings #i #i think

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#behaving #behavior #beings #complexity #environment

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

#because #before #beings #belief #better

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family. ↗

— Patti Smith

#another #any #anybody #because #childhood