#human

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death

Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously — because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the toilet — but it's also not something to totally disregard. ↗

— Dan Harmon

#brains #humankind #religion #religions #religion

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#advanced #america #belief #believed #differentiation

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#errors #humanity #inheritance #leaves #stream

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#complete #conquest #experience #framework #history

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#everything #helps #how #human #human condition

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. ↗

— Alan Brien

#almost #does #done #drainage #every

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. ↗

— Robert Browning

#character #fear #hope #humanity #love

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. ↗

— William Bartram

#affections #ardent #attachment #faithful #filial

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#gifts #his #human #human race #man