H Quotes
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“Human history is a Gaian dream.”
“Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.”
“Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.”
Source: Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
“Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.”
Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation
“Human history is marked by a startling paradox: the tendency to reject logical beneficial choices in Favor of destructive ones.”
“Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.”
“Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines our personal history with society, where the suppression of individuality for the sake of the collective good battles the notion that the purpose of society is to enable each person to flourish. A conspicuous feature of cultural development involves societies teaching children the sublimation of unacceptable impulses or idealizations, consciously to transform their inappropriate instinctual impulses into socially acceptable actions or behavior. The paradox rest in the concept that in order for any person to flourish they must preserve the spiritual texture of themselves, a process that requires the individual to resist societal restraint, push off against the community, and reject the walls of traditionalism that seek to pen us in. The climatic defining event in a person’s life represents the liberation of the self from crippling conformism, staunchly rebuffing capitulating to the whimsy of the super ego of society.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Human history is the canvas,
and imagination is the paint.”
“Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.”
“Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.”
Source: NORHT STAR COUNTRY
“Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.”
Source: The Novel Habits of Happiness
“Human history unfolds catastrophically, in a ceaselessly reiterated overturning of origin and end driven by the twin pulses of libidinal repetition and social reproduction.”
“Human history's the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions are man-made! And this childish discovery will enable the pious to make an intellectual jump in upwards direction. The devout will turn into a progressive man and the history will flow faster in the progressive direction.”
“Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.”
Source: Looking Backward 2000-1887
“human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.”
Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated
“Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs.”
Source: Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...
“Human, human, human,
that is all we ever are.
Not humanist, not socialist,
just carers of each other.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.”
“Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.”
“Human hypocrisy: When one judges humanity as a whole, people have the habit of disagreeing, saying that everyone is different - unique. Yet people turn around and say that at the end of the day, everyone is the same. Ladies and gentlemen, the joyful paradoxical nature of humanity. If you really want to dismiss the paradox, show me that your an imaginary number, rather than a real number.”
“Human I stand, from the river to the sea, I won't let no wildlife normalize inhumanity.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Human ia such that everyone leaves you to your fate during your darkest moments even those you could trust with your life. But in as much as you love and care for them you need to start cutting off all strings that tie you to them and groom those few that firmly stand by you through these times. And surely just as the sun set for the moon to rise, that same sun will rise once again and shine brighter than it used to be.”
“Human identity is fundamentally an illusion; it’s an evolutionary overhang which lets us function as coherent self-aware animals. But, on a deep level, we have no real evidence that when we wake up we’re the same person who went to sleep.”
“Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption.”
“Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.”
“Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.”
“Human ideologies are based on human believe and acceptance of one ideology by all human is not possible as long as each human could find answers about his existence by his own mind.”
Source: HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good
“Human ideology is the result: a tabloid concoction of religious conviction, political idealism, urban myth, tribal myth, wishful thinking, memorable anecdote, and pseudo-science.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.”
Source: This Business of Living
“Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.”
Source: My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
“Human imagination is the seat of discrimination. It has two choices: to imagine a world without fear or imagine a world with amplified fear.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“Human impotence necessitates art.”
“Human improvement is from within outward.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“Human individuals and human organizations typically have preferences over resources that are not well represented by an "unbounded aggregative utility function". A human will typically not wager all her capital for a fifty-fifty chance of doubling it. A state will typically not risk losing all its territory for a ten percent chance of a tenfold expansion. [T]he same need not hold for AIs. An AI might therefore be more likely to pursue a risky course of action that has some chance of giving it control of the world.”
Source: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
“Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.”
“Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.”
Source: Ethics
“Human ingenuity allows for an amazing scale of incompetence.”
“Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.”
“Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.”
“Human intellect is incurably abstract.”
Source: God in the Dock
“Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism”
Source: Stray Reflections: The Private Notebook of Muhammad Iqbal
“Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder is not a tantrum in the sky, disease is not a divine punishment, and not every death or accident results from witchcraft. What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according to its own inner algorithms of cause and effect, probability and chance, without any regard for human feelings.”
Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
“Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2
“Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.”
Source: The Architecture of Community
“Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.”
Source: The Huston Smith Reader
“Human intelligence is not a gift. It’s an occasionally useful plague.”
“Human intelligence is our own biggest thread and our best ally.”
Source: Discovery
“Human intelligence is our own biggest threat and our best ally.”
Source: Discovery