#human

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#music #napoleon #music

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#ignorance #knowledge #wisdom #nature

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#destruction #flawed #human-character #human-nature #nature

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. ↗

— Jules Verne

#brave #cannot #human #laws #may

لم يعد يدهشني الظلم ولا الغباء ولا الخوف ولا العناد ولا الجحود ولكن سأبقى دائمًا مندهشًا أمام قدرة الإنسان الفريدة على النسيان. آفة حارتنا. ↗

— بلال فضل

#oppression #nature

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #nature

Trees're always a relief, after people. ↗

— David Mitchell

#forest #humanity #nature #trees #nature

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#nature

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#instinct #learning #nature

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#human-nature #savagery #war #nature