Quotes of: Humanities Keyword

All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.

The Human Script

The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love

The Human Script

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book

The Human Script

The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.

The Human Script

The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

If something’s existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

A Hero of Our Time

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

I believe that open-heart surgery is a must for all human beings

Hallelujah, Giant Space Wolf

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

Inter Ice Age 4

... human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello.

I Suck at Girls

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Ilustrado

In material things, there are seven wonders; in human beings there is only one wonder - and that's you.

I Love You Too

To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future.

Imagination and Time

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku.

I Want