2,158 Quotes About Humans

[...] It is essentially this you can do with a human that you cannot do with a chimpanzee: train them to contribute modestly to society. To become a well-connected neuron in the collective human brain. Without the knowledge and tools of previous generations, humans are largely indistinguishable from chimpanzees.

Humans, in general, are the great actors; They're great pretenders!

Humans are capable of such baseless brutality.

Causation is the vicious form of all evil bothering around humans for centuries.

Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! ...As if the turning of sunlight into wine...wasn't a thousand times more impressive...

সাধারণত, ‘প্রকৃতি’ মানে গাছপালা, জীবজন্তু, দৃশ্যপট ও অন্যান্য উপাদান এবং উৎপন্নদ্রব্যকে বোঝায় যেসবের অবস্থান মানুষের বিপরীতে। কিন্তু, আমার মনে হয় আমরা, মানুষরা, বিরুদ্ধে নই; আমরা কেবল প্রকৃতির অংশই নই, আমরাও প্রকৃতি!

The pleasure of this kind of narrative is not that we think we are reading about the real world (although the story usually does map onto our world fairly closely), but rather that the wings of symmetry are unfolding around us; briefly we are on a planet where, as E.M. Forster says, there are no secrets and human behavior makes sense. I call this 'fiction.

He is: frog: unworried by the self-consciousness with which the human animal is stuck; it is our blessing and our curse; not only do we know, we know that we know. And we are not often willing to face how little we know.

I can read minds but I still don't understand women. Or men. Humans. I don't understand humans.