Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Pain is not seen as an objection to life: 'If you have no happiness left to give me, well then! you still have your pain...
...all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens ["Strange New World," ].
I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.
Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!
The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
As long as God is a man, not a couple, the life of a woman, according to Hanna,is bound to remain as it is now, namely wretched, with woman as the proletarian of Creation, however smartly dressed.
That?" I glanced back to the door where JT had disappeared. "That was Genus Homo, species , subspecies . Let us move on to the cages with the interesting animals." --Jacob "Yasha" Livingston
Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle.
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.
Macho and manly and stern and, oh man. Sam sighed. Guys like this were never gay. They were always the ones chasing the homos.
My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.
Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activ...
[Joe Miller is in court and has just asked his witness whether he is a homosexual] Joe Miller: Are you a homo? Are you a queer? Are you a faggot? Are you a fruit? Are you *gay*, sir?
Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?
And how does one basically recognize good development? In that a well-developed man does our senses good: that he is carved from wood which is hard, delicate, and sweet-smelling, all at the same time.
