Humans Quotes

Humans don’t make sense.”“If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been pa...

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored ...

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

Neuroanatomy, political history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite ca...

Somewhere in the steaming jungles of the Carboniferous Period there emerged an organism that for the...

a typical chromosomal DNA molecule in a human being is composed of about five billion pairs of nucle...

So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our s...

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shad...

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn u...

Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods...

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded ...

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.For after all, he was only...

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity,...

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.

Be as promiscuous as the rabbits!' said Hammond. 'Why not? What's wrong with rabbits? Are they any w...

My home drove meinto the wilderness.Few look for me. Few hear me.

His moral lectureblazed with hate.What could have driven a child that far?

A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhy...

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should...

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses ...

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend...

Apes. The moon woke them--round the world's navel revolvedprayer wheels of steps.

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.

You can’t mind these things, you just can’t, for to dislike what makes a person human is to dislike ...

Some experimenters have reported that an angry face “pops out” of a crowd of happy faces, but a sing...

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being aro...

What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those S...

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes...

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

We feel secure with things we can see or touch.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...

This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to ch...

[When asked about his thoughts on gods]I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a st...

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someon...

Actually, what does man live for?”“To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die jus...

The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, b...

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful.

Humans are almost always lonely.

Our societies probably work best if they mimic as closely as possible the small-scale communities of...

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human r...

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds,...

I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards:First, the notion th...

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love pers...

The truth is that he wanted to draw a little comfort from gazing at the stars. There were still one ...

Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has ...

Well, anyhow, the practical outcome of all these damn democratic ideas, is that men of our quality -...

Man is now a new animal, a new and different animal; he can jump a hundred miles, see through brick ...

It's just men and ants. There's the ants builds their cities,live their lives, have wars, revolution...

When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human be...

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man...

Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.

After a long time, I decided that the Three Laws govern the manner in which my positronic pathways b...

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the...

He willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but t...

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived...

I do have hope. Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthus...

Said by Colin the dragon:"It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other h...

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they none...

(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all ...

One was watching the other day a red-tailed hawk, high in the heavens, circling effortlessly, withou...

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer

The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone...

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for hu...

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birt...

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...

Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots tha...

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Walking was not fast enough so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was no...

The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attrac...

Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: r...

I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me ...

I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really abou...

We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as...

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, a...

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the crea...

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings ...

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he ...

The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born,Nor how to bu...

Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s poi...

Why do you think we are the only animal that kisses? She was near again. Because the area in front o...

We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable tha...

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilati...

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.