Quotes of: Humanities Keyword

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.

Cryptonomicon

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Cutting for Stone

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

The Denial of Death

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

Dearly Devoted Dexter

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

The Doctrine of the Mean

There is no fixed formula for prayer. It has to be spontaneous, sincere, and affectionate. It is an over pouring of human spirit to God

Dolmens in the Blue Mountain

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

The Devil's Punchbowl

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

The Daybreakers

The perfect human being is uninteresting. — Joseph Campbell

Eye of the Beholder: True Stories of People with Facial Differences

4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITY When you lose reasoning you forget humanity, When you forget laughter you lose Divinity. [222] – 4

Eddies of Life

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

Education of a Wandering Man

You have really nice teeth,” Terry said and thought they could be excellent for his collection of human body parts.

Everyday Psychopaths

Ecological awareness expands the context of life; it also enlarges who we are as a person.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Ender's Shadow

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Essays: First and Second Series

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

The Engineer of Human Souls

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.

The Front Porch Prophet

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

The Golden Age of Science Fiction

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.

The Ghost in the Machine