#uma

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#human-nature #humankind #limit #personal-development #experience

The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with. Scruples are alien to the black panther. Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions. The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations. The self-critical jackal does not exist. The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly live as they live and are glad of it. The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos but in other respects it is light. There is nothing more animal-like than a clear conscience on the third planet of the Sun. ↗

— Wisława Szymborska

#humanity #life #morality #self-deprecation #experience

Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#humanity #religion #beauty

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#data-mining #humanity #marketing #life

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#love

Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”             -I did nothing for you.”             -You loved me and your love made me--human. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#foundation #human #robot #love

...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#life

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you actually make them think, they'll hate you. ↗

— Don Marquis

#society #thinking #love

Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea. ↗

— Alexandra Adornetto

#love #protection #love

وهل كانت الاديان السماوية كلها فى جوهرها الا دعوة للحب والرحمة والعطف والعدل والسلام؟ وهل كان الانبياء والمصلحون جميعا الا محبين للبشر والانسانية وقادرين على العطاء لهم والتضحية واحتمال الاذى من اجلهم؟ وكل ذلك فى النهاية من احوال الحب الصادق.. وان اختلفت المجالات.. وتنوعت اساليب التعبير.. وتعددت الاقنعة! ↗

— عبد الوهاب مطاوع

#love #mercy #religious #love