Humans Quotes

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

~ Carl Sagan

In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all. They pull us in the wrong direction and away from the decent and honorable code that makes us care for creatures who are entirely at our mercy. Especially within the last two hundred years, we've come to apply an industrial mind-set to the use of animals, too often viewing them as if they were nothing but articles of commerce and the raw material of science, agriculture, and wildlife management. Here, as in other pursuits, human ingenuity has a way of outrunning human conscience, and some things we do only because we can--forgetting to ask whether we should.

~ Wayne Pacelle

So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I have to remind myself that I've always known this: Evolution is not for everybody.

~ Daniel Pinkwater

We are all same, inside our homes!

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

if i had forever to do whatever i wanted, i would spend three years in reality and spend the rest of my time just thinking and decrypting what i saw and what would have happened to make it like so.

~ Angel Death

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble.

~ Amit Kalantri

Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its money.

~ Amit Kalantri

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

~ Amit Kalantri

With some money in your pocket you walk confidently, you talk confidently and you work confidently.

~ Amit Kalantri

You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy.

~ Amit Kalantri

Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Humans are almost always lonely.

~ Frank Herbert

In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes.

~ Amit Kalantri

Having this, we want that.Owning some, we want more.Standing here, we wish to be there.If it's impossible, we struggle to make it happen.Why are we like this? Why not be content with some, here, and now? Why is enough not enough? Because humans are ambitious creatures not meant to be idle or fruitless. We strive to learn, to grow, to achieve, to amass; therefore, we will never be content.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I chase goals, not girls.

~ Amit Kalantri

Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal.

~ Amit Kalantri

Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

~ Raheel Farooq

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

~ Charles Taylor

There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed!

~ Augustine Of Hippo

If you put it as 'complex nervous systems' it sounds pretty deflationary. What's so special about a complex nervous system? But of course, that complex nervous system allows you to do calculus. It allows you to do astrophysics… to write poetry... to fall in love. Put under that description, when asked 'What’s so special about humans...?', I’m at a loss to know how to answer that question. If you don’t see why we’d be special… because we can do poetry [and] think philosophical thoughts [and] we can think about the morality of our behavior, I’m not sure what kind of answer could possibly satisfy you at that point....I could pose the same kinds of questions of you... So God says, 'You are guys are really, really special.' How does his saying it make us special? 'But you see, he gave us a soul.' How does our having a soul make us special? Whatever answer you give, you could always say… 'What’s so special about that?

~ Shelly Kagan

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them. Success and failure. Feelings, regrets, the point where they knew they made mistakes...it is interesting but unfortunately, irrelevant. Did they go to their death and grieve for what they did? Did the makers of the atomic bomb grieve for the destruction they dedicated their lives towards creating? Who cares? They did it. Whether they knew what they were creating, or whether they talked themselves into believing it was for the best, the glory of history is being able to view it in black-and-white. However honorable one's initial intention, a villain will always be a villain.

~ Caroline Hanson

Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.

~ Amit Kalantri

We have yet to establish a permanent Mars colony for this reason: Trying to colonize Mars with humans is a known suicide mission that no one is talking about.

~ Steven Magee

Today we have made a fetish of choice, but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life.

~ John N. Gray

All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication.

~ Peter Gärdenfors

If you adjust first time, compromise second time, failure is what you will get third time.

~ Amit Kalantri

Emotional pain, physical damage, financial weakness are the reasons to stop for a while and not forever.

~ Amit Kalantri

Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.

~ Amit Kalantri

Don't live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt.

~ Amit Kalantri

What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated.

~ Jeffrey Fry

We feel secure with things we can see or touch.

~ Deepak Chopra

What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?

~ Lila Abu-Lughod

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

Treat your advices like your money, don't give it to others unless they ask for it.

~ Amit Kalantri

I speak less because my words are precious and my advices are priceless.

~ Amit Kalantri

There is always a moment in our lives when we are destined to fall the way we ever feared of.

~ Annie Ali

Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous act, are still at the sideways of delusion and conquer.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

To paraphrase Hannah Arendt—as portrayed in the recently released movie of the same name—the Nazi war criminal’s actions stemmed from her well-known phrase “banality of evil,” not as a result of mental illness but as a result of a lack of thinking. Their greatest error was delegating the process of thinking and decision-making to their higher ups. In Rudolf Höss’s case, this would have been his superiors, particularly Heinrich Himmler. To many this conclusion is troubling, for it suggests that if everyday, “normal,” sane men and women are capable of evil, then the atrocities perpetrated during the Holocaust and other genocides could be repeated today and into the future.Yet, this is exactly the lesson we must learn from the war criminals at Nuremberg. We must be ever wary of those who do not take responsibility for their actions. And we ourselves must be extra vigilant, particularly in this day of accelerated technological power, heightened state surveillance, and global corporate reach, that we do not delegate our thinking to others.

~ Thomas Harding