#hum

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#most #regard #shame #someone #spare

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#everyone #human #madness #praise #virtue

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#benefit #could #general #general good #gods

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#body #extremely #human #human body #i

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

#agriculture #biggest #humbug #industry #our

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles." (Young India, 22 October 1925) ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conscience #humanity #morality #politics #principles

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#actually #being #documentaries #documentary #dramas

Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#fleas #funny #humor #humour #pass-the-fleas-please

The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#science-fiction #science

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#earth #expand #fiction #human #mars