#humans

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#creatures #earth #end #fact #humans

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons. ↗

— Allen West

#humans #liberal #philosophy #selfish #views

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#because #beings #believe #enlightenment #flaws

I hate the nature of humans, how much you get closer that much they run away. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#humans #nature #nature

There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed! ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#marveling #nature #self #wonders #nature

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion. ↗

— Martin Amis

#famines #god #humans #plagues #problem-of-evil

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ignorance #observation

Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#economic-collapse #environmentalism #extinction #gaede #globalization

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#ago #always #changed #deal #haven

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#fallible #human #human condition #humans #i