637 quotes found
“One way or another, all humans are superstitious.”
“Jealousy is not the remedy.It is the illness.”
“The Truth is, One sky, all human's !”
“While ritual, emotion and reasoning are all significant aspects of human nature, the most nearly unique human characteristic is the ability to associate abstractly and to reason. Curiosity and the ...”
“Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war, Daniel. We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an ...”
“To preserve the past is to save the future...”
“We are moved to respond to the fact of human brilliance, human depth in all its variety because it is the most wonderful thing in the world, very probably the most wonderful thing in the universe.”
“Not only the products, even we come with the expiry date”
“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”
“Dear Jesus, please get me out. Christ, please, please, please, Christ. If you only keep me from being killed I'll do anything you say. I believe in you and I'll tell everybody in the world that you...”
“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”
“The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes--most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and probably even before life arose on Earth. It is a characteristic conceit...”
“Human beings are not nearly as coolly rational as we like to think we are. Having set up comfortable planets of belief, we become resistant to altering them, and develop cognitive biases that preve...”
“I really can't handle talking about this for too long because it hurts too much, but I want to say that there is one thing I've learned about people they don't get that mean and nasty overnight. It...”
“Actually, what does man live for? To think about it. Any other question? Yes. Why does he die just when he has done that and has become a bit more sensible? Some people die without having become mo...”
“Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.”
“As humans, it is in our nature to focus on picking ourselves up while the whole world falls apart.”
“The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.”
“Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, ...”
