#human

You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#nature

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree. ↗

— Kim Ki-duk

#controversy #horror #human #human-nature #oriental

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#human-nature #investment #pride #nature

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing. ↗

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

#machine #nature #nature

Cause and effect are never divided between two people. ↗

— Max Frisch

#cause #effect #human-relationships #relationship

I place a higher value on human life than on no human life. But only barely.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humanism #humanistic #humor #life #relationships

Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two. ↗

— H.G. Mewis

#h-g-mewis #human-condition #life #art

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. ↗