Quotes of: Human-existence Keyword

Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

Yoko Ono

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we don't nip it in the bud, it will escalate and we wil...

The Newbie's Guide to Positive Parenting

Humans have evolved levels of cooperation that are unprecedented among primate species. You can see it even in babies. Say you are playing with a baby and begin to put the toys in a box. If you point to one of the toys, the baby is likely to put it i...

The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that th...

The Last Hero

Simple answers to the most difficult questions: 1. Why do humans find it difficult to express themselves? To relate to the movies and books, later. 2. Why do humans make everything look so big, beautiful & complicated? Ego feels good. 3. Why do human...

Saurabh Sharma

If you want to go up in the world, veil ambition with the forms of humanity.

Chinese

You call me the unhuman," it might say to him, "and so I really am—for you; but I am so only because you bring me into opposition to the human, and I could despise myself only so long as I let myself be hypnotized into this opposition. I was contem...

The Ego and Its Own

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

Cronenberg on Cronenberg

Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.

The China Garden

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Choke

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

Climats

The human body is the most ordinary of things, yet also the most extraordinary.

Co-ed Naked Philosophy

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Carrie

...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

Cry Of The Wolf

You make them sound human." "Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human." She couldn't argue with that.

Dark Inside

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Disclosure

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

Ender's Game

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Elantris

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

The Elements of Typographic Style