#humanit

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life! ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artist #artistic #artists #artists-life #arts

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#respect

The human spirit must prevail over technology. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#science #science

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#technology #technology

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#action

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#humanity #character

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#earth #humanity #outer-space #universe #trouble

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#humanity #public-opinion #games

Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#horror #humanity #terror #war #war-on-terror

Human reason can excuse any evil. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#evil #humanity #reasoning #evil