We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.
After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
But in my growth and development, I knew I wanted more. And more. Oh, God. So much more. It's what being human is all about.
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world?
A real, true love that makes a human being believe in the power of destiny happens only once in a lifetime.
This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.
It's okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can.
Just like science, there must be other kinds of sensations which haven't yet been felt by the human heart at all.
Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact with aliens, while humans are still making bloodshed with each other.
It was as natural as breathing to all human beings, and to all warm-blooded creatures, for that matter, to wish quick deaths for monsters. This was an instinct.
I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
