Quotes of: Human-progress Keyword

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

The Setting Sun

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.

The Sea, the Sea

Go to the Source of Purity; there you will find the truth. Go to the river of Acheron; there you will find the human truth, it is, however, fed by lies.

The Seven Deadly Sins

We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment.

Shadows in the Twilight: Conversations with a Shaman

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

A Shred of Truth

Humans are actually spirit beings who each possess a mind and a body and what we do with them is entirely up to us.

Spirituality - Gathered Inspirational Thoughts

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

The Storyteller

Make a vow... That whatever happens in your life That you use it for the good of humanity.

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

The Shadow of the Wind

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

The Shadow of the Wind

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

Stark's War

Sometimes, you know, human kindness just knocks you off your feet.

Somebody Up There Hates You

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

A Tale of Two Cities

What are memories but photo images from the mind? Isn't the human mind so much like a camera, saving pictures every now and then?

Twists Of Fate

Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.

Team Human

Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes." That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.

Team Human

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

Orfeo

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

Odes to Common Things

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

Oscar Wilde

Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all here, us humans. Overestimation.

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