#hum

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#combined #complete #determinism #hard #human

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#caution #complex #controlling #degree #engineering

But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#humor

.....he kissed me right on my gonna-see-God. ↗

— Alice Clayton

#humor

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#humor

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human. ↗

— Antonio Machado

#human #man #otherwise #specifically #would

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#every #final #human #human knowledge #into

Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possbly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#inspirational #anger

Why is it that churches and religions and that whole gang behave as if they have got the whole God knowledge down. I mean what kind of arrogance is that? ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

We’ve come here to totally individualize, and yet, we're totally connected to everyone else. How does that work? ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art