Man, an animal that makes bargains.
The fantastic postulates that there are forces in the outside world, and in our own natures, which we can neither know nor control, and these forces may even constitute the essence of our existence, beneath the comforting rational surface. The fantas...
When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he exposed the world to a momentous discovery . For the first time in history, human beings were seen not as creatures of divine origin, but instead, as a product of nature, an animal li...
The evening before I departed I stood on the rim of a lagoon on Isla Rabida. Flamingos rode on its dark surface like pink swans, apparently asleep. Small, curved feathers, shed from their breasts, drifted away from them over the water on a light bree...
Symbols, for me and for many, of freedom, whether it be from the prison of over-dense communities and the close confines of human relationships, from the less complex incarceration of office walls and hours, or simply freedom from the prison of adult...
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way un which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity -even under the most difficult circumstances- to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dign...
There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not changing things, but generally considered good and bad throughout the ages and throughout the species. Of the good, we t...
The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a gigabyte of data...which is a tiny little database. If you take the entire living biosphere, that's the assemblage of 20 million species or so that c...
If you are in the mountains alone for some time, many days at minimum, & it helps if you are fasting. The forest grows tired of its weariness towards you; it resumes its inner life and allows you to see it. Near dusk the faces in tree bark cease hidi...
A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape...
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
To err is human, but to err on the side of compassion is humane.
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.
Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.
The deepness of human love and dignity will define the tolerance of humanity.
It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it.
A pierde tot ce se poate pierde" Bărbatul este un animal indirect, Gingaş sufletul lui de neînţeles este. Umbra unei frunze o ţine în braţe, frunza nu, frunza nu. Fuga unui iepure o ţine pe câmp, iepurele nu, iepurele nu Foame îi e de ce n-...
