It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!
There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.
Human beings used to be molecules which could do many, many different sorts of dances, or decline to dance at all --as they pleased. My mother could do the waltz, the tango, the rumba....
A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)
I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.
Life isn't about the brand of clothes you wear, or about who looks the best. It's about the number of faces which smile when they hear your name
Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.
❤ We must all find the spirit to try and help better humanity! We all have it inside us to contribute something to the cause of humanity!
People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.
The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure:
The first move was to turn to the one great, perfectly visible and certified revolution in the recent history of the human race [the Google search-engine].
...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.
Simplicity is everywhere in nature, and meditation is a natural state. Meditation is a state of peaceful equilibrium, the fourth state of consciousness, and is always available to every single human being.
If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.
They were relieved that I was chosen by a human being," she'd said to Angelica in her dry voice. "They were braced for an interspecies liaison.
It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.
