Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help.
Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too.
You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?
After all, trust is greater than love, and to truly trust another human-being is rare. Love can exist without trust, but trust cannot exist without love.
The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.
The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.
A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.
Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.
To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.
Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?
Time becomes meaningless without memory and we humans have a unique consciousness that allows us to live in the past or the future, which is actually more of a curse than a useful superpower.
[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a one.
When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.
I don't want you to feel sorry for me. I want you to forgive yourself for being human, just like you would forgive anyone else.
It is not, what a lawyer tells me I do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
HATE is the shortest of human emotions, it is stronger than love, more compelling than lust. Page 30. THE SCALPEL – GAME BENEATH (
I think love and hate intertwine far too much for humanity's own good, yet we choose to compare them like vinegar and water.
Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.
A human life Is the time that happens while The Earth takes a break For you to live between Inhaling and exhaling your soul from the un-endless space Named infinity
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
