#human beings

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#beings #beneath #better #hope #human

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#being #beings #human #human being #human beings

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. ↗

— Richard Adams

#beings #enjoy #feeling #human #human beings

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting. ↗

— Tom Baker

#comfort #drink #exciting #fantasy #get

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#beings #eat #human #human beings #nutrients

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#apples #arrogance #been #beings #benefit

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#beings #close #death #found #human

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#being #beings #complication #deal #emphasis

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#agree #beings #choices #creatures #design

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#anthropology #beings #context #experience #human