If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.
J.K. RowlingTag: human accomplishments peter-pettigrew rat
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.
Emerson M. PughTag: human brain comprehension understand
Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator.
David Rains WallaceTag: human evolution predator intervention prey
What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.
Clarice LispectorTag: yearning human evolution aspiration desire being
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
Michael BurkeTo hurt is as human as to breathe.
J.K. RowlingWere God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.
Arthur W. PinkTag: man justice god grace human sin creator
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: human all-to-human-faber-trans
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.
Jeffrey EugenidesTag: history human rebellion machine assembly-line manufacturing workers
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