Quotes of: Human-eye Keyword

As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand,...

Love

Once upon a time, son, they used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes; but now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-block-cold eyes search behind my shadow. There was a time indeed they used to shake hands with their hear...

Love

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

Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, night, the negative pole, must share equal importance wit...

Sleep Has His House

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