Quotes of: Human-capacity Keyword

I see science and mysticism as two complementary manifestations of the human mind; as its rational and intuitive faculties. Capra

The Science of Vampires

There are humans, and there are ghosts. Vampires are just in a different state of transition. Not part of the human world and not part of the spirit world. We are just caught somewhere in between life and the real death.

Song of the Vampire

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.

Styles of Radical Will

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Thinking Skills - Using Your Brain in the Information Age

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

A Tale of Two Cities

The greatest riddle of all.... the riddle of man! The complex mystery of the universal human being as he stands wihtin the threshold of universal laws. This is the most fascinating puzzle!

Temple of the Grail

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not – Heaven help us – all having lodgment at one time or another in the human spirit?

Orlando

... a hunger that is more than simply material connects the human who feeds the chickens to the chickens that feed the humans.

Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet

La vie humaine est limitée, mais je voudrais vivre éternellement – Human life is limited but I would like to live forever. - Yukio Mishima

The Possessions Of Doctor Forrest

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Père Goriot

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.

The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life

Relationships tend to be flawed because they are made up of inherently flawed components, mere human beings.

Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless and Hopeful: An Introduction on Polyamory

War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.

Perpetual Peace

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

Paper Souls

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.

Personality Development Through Positive Thinking

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Real Christianity

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

A Treatise of Human Nature

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Talulla Rising

We, as human beings, enjoy freedom of choice. Your attitude is your choice!

Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace