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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.
The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.
What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.
'Humans' would definitely score really well on the Bechdel test - the one that tracks how well represented women are in drama.
Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.
All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there's no growth.
They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.
Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what humans like, and we assume our pets like what we like. We're wrong.
Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.
To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.
I'm absolutely happy with where Louis Litt is. The writers, starting with Aaron [Korsh], have just made him into a human being.
I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.
Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.
Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.
A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.
Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things.
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That's not how humans are supposed to live.
I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.
I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.
There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.
I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.
The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.
But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.
For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.