2,158 Quotes About Humans






  • Author Leland Lewis
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    Human beings should protect all children. But among the ancient Hopis a "human being" was one who spoke and lived by truth while those who did not; were not..

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  • Author Robert Fulford
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    The anthropologist Clifford Geertz says that humans are ‘symbolizing, conceptualizing, meaning-seeking’ animals. In our species, he says, ‘the drive to make sense out of our experience, to give it form and order, is evidently as real and as pressing as the more familiar biological needs.’ To Geertz, a human being is an organism ‘which cannot live in a world it is unable to understand.

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