“We remain part of the earth's ecosystem, and participate in the food chain whereby we kill and eat various plants and animals, while our bodies provide a fair field full of food for a great variety of parasites.”
Source: Plagues and Peoples
“After all, he was human, in spite of rumors to the contrary.”
Source: The Mona Lucy
“humans have a global benchmark-standard of conduct that called humanity”
“(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.”
Source: Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate
“In light of this, my visits with Morrie felt like a cleansing rinse of human kindness.
We talked about life and we talked about love.
We talked about one of Morrie's favourite subjects, compassion and why our society had such a shortage of it.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Да, человек смертен, но это было бы еще полбеды. Плохо то, что он иногда внезапно смертен, вот в чем фокус! И вообще не может сказать, что он будет делать в сегодняшний вечер.”
“Maybe I should be still; accept my fate. But I have tasted freedom, known love – I have had choice and learnt what it is to have a human heart, not just a compliant one.”
Source: 'Til Death Do Us Part: An Adult Retelling of The Little Mermaid
“Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.”
“I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammer
to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“The real funny thing is, whether the demons exist or not at all in your life, it's nothing to do whether you believe or not to one, none nor both of them.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut