#human

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

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. ↗

— John Berger

#around #cite #cruelty #evil #human

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ↗

— John Berger

#confines #difficulty #dog #dreams #great

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#genius #humanity #inertia #learn #which

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#nothing #wisdom #wisdom

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#nature

...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on. ↗

— Billie Letts

#human-nature #nature

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#nature

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#human-nature #nature

It is only dogs that never bite their masters. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#nature