#hum

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#fame #i #posthumous #sits #those

The human race has been telling stories since it began. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#began #human #human race #race #since

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#christian #eating #go #higher #his

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#elsewhere #escapes #human #human race #iniquity

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#humble #people #pious #problem #real

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#being #else #everyone #human #human being

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#day #event #fastest #had #human

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#berlin #europe #future #history #human

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#cities #creations #greatest #humanity

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human