#uma

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#bump #describes #essential #human #investigates

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#back #behavior #contradiction #crazy #every

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#afghanistan #alone #because #empires #feel

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#being #coming #culture #deeper #dig

Religion leaves no room for human complexity. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#human #leaves #religion #room

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#beauty #celibacy #even #having #humanity

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#being #believe #century #despite #genocide

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#god #gods #human #live #most

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#christ #church #humanity #marked #medieval

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#beings #courage #gain #great #great qualities