2,158 Quotes About Humans

Every person is a collective, a vast and complex gathering of interdependent life. Any description of ‘human’ must acknowledge these intimate strangers. Our bond with microbes is such that they are not so much riders, parasites, and assistants as part human. And we, it’s becoming increasingly clear, may need to begin thinking of ourselves as part microbe.

You can feel when the person is being truthful, no matter what language they're speaking. Because truth is often spoken haltingly. With pauses. Like it's being dug up, one spoonful at a time, from somewhere deep. Truth feels heavy. It has gravity.

Solutions do not come from the placewhere man and woman rule from on highIt comes from within; then and only thenwill authority die, and with it hatred and lies

...isn’t it intriguing that thought cannot exist without language, and since language is a function of the brain, we would have to say that language---the ability to experience the world through symbols---is in some sense a physical property of human beings, which proves that the old mind-body duality is so much nonsense, doesn’t it? Adieu, Descartes. The mind and body are one.

I love humans, all humans. I often think that perhaps I was born into the wrong species.

Human beings are unknowable. You can never know a single person fully, not even yourself. Even if you think you know yourself in your safe glass castle, you don’t know yourself in the dirt. Even if you hustle and make in the rough, you have no idea if you would thrive or die in the light of real riches, if your cleverness would outlive your desperation.

The odour of humans is always a fleshy odour — that is, a sinful odour.

When dealing with humans, we're too entangled in the triviality of normality of each other that we never consider to zoom out and marvel and ponder over the parts that signify each other's rarity.

I believe that Man is good. I believe that we stand at the dawn of a century that will be more peaceful and prosperous than any in history.