Humans Quotes - Page 27

• There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.

  Bede Griffiths

  Beautiful, Heart, Discovery

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• nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very much like one’s home universe, or as a longing for versions of one’s self that one will never, and can never know.

  Charles Yu

  Home, Self, Two

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.47, Vintage

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• the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Moving, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.

  Joko Beck

  Memories, Thinking, Imagination

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• Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

  Douglas Adams

  Independence, Computer, Counting

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

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• And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Daughter, Mean

  "Fictional characters: Mr. Tumnus, the Faun; Lucy Pevensie". "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I knew then that I had never understood what humans called love. But if that was anything close to the power you held over me, then no wonder they searched for it so passionately." I reached out and pulled him into bed with me. "You're going to be late." "Why ?" "Because after hearing that I can't let you leave until I've had my fill. Get naked, Dankmar.

  Abbi Glines

  Bed, Naked, Hearing

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• Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can’t have.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Thinking, Want Something, Greed

  "Fictional character: Greed". Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Yaskusoku no hi), www.imdb.com. 2009-2010.

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• A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive.

  E. B. White

  Islands, Race, Cities

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• Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

  Rafael Sabatini

  Book, Men, Hypocrisy

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• Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Believe, Doe

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1226, Scholastic Inc.

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• Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said "Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign", which critics have always thought was a bit rhymey. The dwarf version of this maxim is "If it don't stink, marry it", which is slightly less romantic, but the general gist is the same.

  Eoin Colfer

  Beautiful, Mean, Eye

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.865, Penguin UK

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• For once, Evie didn’t know what to say. She hadn’t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, indeed, human, with a deep wound named Rotke.

  Libba Bray

  Uncles, Ties, Textbooks

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• We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.

  Anais Nin

  People, Attention, Pay

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• We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect

  Madonna Ciccone

  Needs, Dignity, Treats

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• Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

  Idries Shah

  Real, People, Right Time

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.82, Octagon Press Ltd

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• You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane

  Scott Westerfeld

  Falling In Love, Cities, Helping

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Adversity, Rights, Self

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• Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.

  Junot Diaz

  Honesty, Love Is, Challenges

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• Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Action, Forget, Reason

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.484, Vintage

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• A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Book, Victory

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• One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Language, Frustrating, Human Language

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• He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

  J. K. Rowling

  Unique, Appreciate, Faces

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Sick, Insanity

  "Hitler's Secret Book". Grove Press softcover book, 1961.

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• It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?

  J. K. Rowling

  Simple, Comfort, Gestures

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.123, Hachette UK

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