#human

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat. ↗

— Mark Twain

#human #human race #miss #noah #often

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#freedom #human #human life #i #i wish

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#being #defined #female #human #human being

You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow sphere. You have the earth, I have boundless space. Enchained here below by the thousand bonds of your gross, material senses, your spirits cannot plunge into that limpid Ocean of the infinite, where, lost for a day upon your arid shores, my soul drinks deep. ↗

— Herculine Barbin

#humanity #intersex #lgbt #queerness #soul

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#humanity #humans #life #ownership #life

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#dwelling #family #human #human race #men

Compassion is the chief law of human existence. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#humanity #law

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves. ↗

— Tess Gerritsen

#humanity #evil