149 quotes found
“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary”
“Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.”
“This was the species whose main excuse for not doing something was 'if only I had more time'. Perfectly valid until you realised they did have more time. Not eternity, granted, but they had tomorro...”
“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”
“I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for mor...”
“Despite these afternoon misgivings and self-reproaches I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it was, that a serious study of human knowledge, or theory, or belief, if undertaken with a critical ...”
“Be as promiscuous as the rabbits!' said Hammond. 'Why not? What's wrong with rabbits? Are they any worse than a neurotic, revolutionary humanity, full of nervous hate?”
“All things human begin with words.”
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
“We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wande...”
“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.”
“Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human mea...”
“What You Get Is What You Got Because Only One Who Gives You That And That Is God.”
“Well,' said Can o' Beans, a bit hesitantly,' imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental illness in human beings.'Huh?'Quite so. The inability to correctly perceive reality is often respo...”
“When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, i...”
“So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.”
“that was bad; i shouldn't have done thatto prevent you from entering a catatonic statei am going to maintain a calm facial expressionwith crinkly eyes and an overall friendly demeanori believe in a...”
“The most important precept is to be aware of WHO WE ARE!Who we are, he said, underlining each word as he said it. Who we are! Us! Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn...”
“Humans are almost always lonely.”
“I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.”
