#humans

Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#learning #weaponry #wolves #equality

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer ↗

— John Keats

#nature #scenery #nature

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humans #mankind #reality #funny

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#intelligence #people #intelligence

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#emotions #humans #life

If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans. If we speak of the history of the species at all, it is only to signify the unknowable sum of these lives. As with other animals, some lives are happy, others wretched. None has a meaning that lies beyond itself. ↗

— John Gray

#humanity #humans #life #man #straw-dogs

Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up. The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on. ↗

— John Gray

#extinction #humans #the-coast-opposite-of-humanity #unsaved #life

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us. ↗

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#humans #jeffery #masson #love

Humans see what they want to see. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humans #mankind #perception #self-delusion #willful-ignorance

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#philosophy #humans