#uma

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at. ↗

— Richard Russo

#nature

You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature. ↗

— Louis Khan

#human-nature #nature

Si l'homme rit, s'il est le seul, parmi le règne animal, à exhiber cette atroce déformation faciale, c'est également qu'il est le seul, dépassant l'égoïsme de la nature animale, à avoir atteint le stade infernal et suprême de la cruauté. ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#humanité #rire #égoïsme #nature

Human hypocrisy: When one judges humanity as a whole, people have the habit of disagreeing, saying that everyone is different - unique. Yet people turn around and say that at the end of the day, everyone is the same. Ladies and gentlemen, the joyful paradoxical nature of humanity. If you really want to dismiss the paradox, show me that your an imaginary number, rather than a real number. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#hypocrisy #paradox #nature

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#human-nature #responsibility #television #world #nature

Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on!' she cried. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#nature

পৃথিবীতে ২ ধরনের মানুষে আছে। এক ধরনের মানুষ রাগ প্রকাশ করতে পারে, খুশি প্রকাশ করতে পারে না, আরেক ধরনের মানুষ খুশি প্রকাশ করতে পারে, রাগ প্রকাশ করতে পারে না ↗

— হুমায়ুন আহমেদ

#nature

I like the look of agony, because I know it's true ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#posthumous #nature

Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#human-nature #philosophical #robots #thrill #nature

He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#nature