Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.
Ray BourhisTags: human-nature togetherness commonality
A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.
HimmiliciousTags: human-nature personification
Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience
Isaac AsimovTags: science human-nature
The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.
Robert BuettnerTags: humanity war human-nature fighting unfairness brutality human-superiority
Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace.
Robert BuettnerTags: humanity human-nature humans consequences meddling meddlers human-superiority
One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying.
Robert BuettnerTags: humanity human-nature lying humanity-complexity
No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.
Zeena SchreckTags: buddhism environmentalism human-nature human-experience destruction-of-nature
...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.
Dianna HardyTags: philosophy human-nature logic denial rational nonsense making-sense-of-the-world human-behaviour rationalise rationalize
Our thoughts are private to protect others not ourselves. People don't have the ability to handle what you really think about them
Morena BaloyiTags: philosophy human-nature
Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved mores still have difficulty destroying, since everyday one sees in our theaters someone affected and weeping at the ills of some unfortunate person, and who, were he in the tyrant's place, would intensify the torments of his enemy still more; [like the bloodthirsty Sulla, so sensitive to ills he had not caused, or like Alexander of Pherae, who did not dare attend the performance of any tragedy, for fear of being seen weeping with Andromache and Priam, and yet who listened impassively to the cries of so many citizens who were killed everyday on his orders. Nature, in giving men tears, bears witness that she gave the human race the softest hearts.] Mandeville has a clear awareness that, with all their mores, men would never have been anything but monsters, if nature had not given them pity to aid their reason; but he has not seen that from this quality alone flow all the social virtues that he wants to deny in men. In fact, what are generosity, mercy, and humanity, if not pity applied to the weak, to the guilty, or to the human species in general. Benevolence and even friendship are, properly understood, the products of a constant pity fixed on a particular object; for is desiring that someone not suffer anything but desiring that he be happy?
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: man virtue human-nature mankind reflection pity state-of-nature natural-virtue
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