Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. .
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.
What humanity wants most is crude sensation. Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.
It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.
People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.
Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.
You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.
You will be surprised how much punishment the human body can take, if there is enough will - or faith.
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
The only species of human beings that are immune to failure are those that are dead and gone. Failure is constant; just prepare to deal with it!
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom
I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.
People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.
None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the television. They were each responsible for saving the world, but they turned over the channel.
In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.
