It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
Rick RiordanTags: reality humanity mankind humans
Trees're always a relief, after people.
David MitchellTags: humanity nature trees alienation forest
Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
Ambrose BierceTags: humor humanity quality inhumanity
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss WestcottTags: strength humanity courage bravery weakness cowardice development
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
Albert A. BartlettTags: science life humanity sustainability exponential-growth sustainable-development
So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.
Paulo CoelhoIt sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.
Sigmund FreudTags: science prediction future humanity fulfillment mankind culture gods desire wish fairy-tale omniscience forbidden omnipotence
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?
Arundhati RoyTags: humanity war horror terror war-on-terror desensitized
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
Roger ZelaznyTags: words reality buddhism history humanity story memory narrative semiotics truthful
Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.
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