637 quotes found
“Polarization breeds respect.”
“Last days? Don't they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere.”
“From Hinduism to the monotheisms through to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the common message is that we are all, naturally and potentially, inclined to reject the other, and to be intolerant and r...”
“One thing that unites us all, one thing is universal among the human species; the anatomy. Big, small, fat, thin, colour or creed are irrelevant. Under the skin, under the flesh, we are one and the...”
“She was walking into doors againA regular habit so it seems"From the Domestic”
“I speak of the human heart, not a logic puzzle." -Diego de Gama”
“Even logic and conversation are really just forms of trading, and as in all things, humans will always try to seek their own best advantage, to seek the greatest profit they can from the exchange.”
“Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it.”
“He fashioned an empire of sorts, bereft of cities yet plagued with the endless dramas of society, its pathetic victories and inevitable failures. The community of enslaved Imass thrived in this qua...”
“Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being!”
“Be A Colorful Person Not A Chameleon.”
“Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us.”
“There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.”
“It's just a bow and arrow, but it's not a laughing matter. It might have been at one time, but history takes the laugh out of many things. If the arrow is a joke, so is the atom bomb, so is the swe...”
“Because you learn things when you talk to people, especially people who aren't like you. You learn what a goddamned polyglot race we are, we marvelous human beings. Some people are friendly. Some p...”
“People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.”
“A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.”
“If you write anything with using same color of ink on same colors page.Then don't blame eyes for not able to read.”
“In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.”
“I also knew I had inherited the name of the world's most famous philosopher. I hated that. Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give.So I renamed myself Ari.If I switched ...”