Si noti il meraviglioso «Mi sembra...» iniziale, che ricorda l’«Io penso...» con cui Darwin introduce nei suoi taccuini la grande idea che le specie evolvono, o l’«esitazione» di cui parla Faraday quando nel suo libro introduce la rivoluzio...
The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self-command, that just consideration of others, that knowledge of her own heart, that principle of righ...
Ash: Ripley, for God's sake, this is the first time that we've encountered a species like this. It has to go back. All sorts of tests have to be made. Ripley: Ash, are you kidding? This thing bled acid. Who knows what it's gonna do when it's dead? As...
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affa...
Man often accords the sexual urge a merely biological significance and does not fully realize its true, existential significance - its link with existence. It is this link with the very existence of man and of the species Homo that gives the sexual u...
Without emotion, what's the point of being human?
I was not born with English in my pocket.
Oh,clever... what's the use of that? Are they human beings?
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.
Love is fuel for the soul.
Nothing exists except through human consciousness
Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded
You know, sometimes I even envy myself.
He’s a typical existentialist. And that’s a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.
So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?
Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.
Poetry is the sound of the human animal.
To err is human, to stroll is Parisian.
One always has hope for human nature
