H Quotes
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“Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.”
“Humans sort of instinctively respond negatively to something that's not true.”
“Humans spend more time finding ways to fight and criticize who they consider a threat than actually learning how to overcome that threat.”
“Humans spend years eating, sleeping, working, and worrying about those things, but it is their free time that is most important. If spent well it can render them into great people, if squandered, it cannot.”
“Humans spent thousands of years looking up at the stars and wondering what was out there. You guys never saw stars at all but you still worked space travel. What an amazing people you Eridians must be. Scientific geniuses.'
The knot in the tape comes loose, recoils wildly, and smacks Rocky's hand. He shakes the affected hand in pain for a moment, then continues messing with the tape measure.
'Yeah, you're definitely a scientist.”
Source: Project Hail Mary
“Humans strive for love - it is the one thing they give the most and yet fear they receive the least.”
Source: Empower
“Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.”
“Humans subconsciously know that heat is available as potential energy and where to release it (kind of like an autopilot system). At the moment when there's only one (1) answer to a question, in English we call that "the past.” That's an arbitrary decision. It's just a single direction in all of probability space. But in English, for humans, the species has decided that when probabilities are singular, they get a different “tense” than future answers. Past is the singular tense and the future is the pluralized.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own, including logic and morality. Even among humans, morality is ignored when expedient. Why should we expect more from an alien life form than we demand from ourselves?”
“HUMANS SUFFER OTHER'S PROGRESS
कष्ट पराई प्रगति
We don't feel because everyone else is suffering too. So this shows us a way to slow down the pace of human life. You need to keep a limit on the earnings. Also this has an explanation of communism. Humans are happy to suffer together. It's the progress of some, that is insufferable for humans.”
Source: UNCHESS: Untie Your Shoes and Walk on the Chessboard of Life
“Humans take. They plough with iron. They ravage the land.'
'Some do, I'll grant you that. Others put back more'n they take. They put back love. They've got soil in their bones.”
Source: Lords and Ladies
“Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.”
Source: Mr. Miracle: A Christmas Novel
“Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are the people we know. Enemies are the Other. You can do just about anything to the Other. It doesn't matter if this Other is actually guilty of any crimes, because it is a matter of emotion, not logic. You see angry people aren't interested in justice, they just want an excuse to vent their rage.”
“Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves. Thus blacks asserted black pride and 'black is beautiful;' women declared 'I am woman, I am strong'; men are saying 'I am man, I am okay.' After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that's not a bad start.”
“Humans tended to use the terms free and freedom to indicate states of being that were anything but.”
Source: Mort(e)
“Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.”
“Humans the world over have no problem chewing unhealthy food, yet the moment they realize they've eaten that tiny, black, hardened end of a banana, it's as if they've just put feces in their mouths.”
Source: The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann
“Humans: They die every night. Those of us with absolutely no imagination return to our lives each morning.
Those of us who dream, live several lives. But maybe return to our initial life sometimes is because we got so lost out there in the dream that we pressed reset and started all over.”
“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water!”
Source: Small Gods
“Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.”
“Humans transform the world through our creative technologies, and we cannot survive without them.”
Source: Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
“Humans treat animals as things that exist as means to human ends. That's morally wrong. Sexism promotes the idea that women are things that exist as means to the ends of men. That's morally wrong. We need to stop treating all persons - whether human or nonhuman - as things.”
“Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.”
“Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?”
Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
“Humans turning electromagnetic radiation into a business is going to be regarded by future historians as one of the biggest biological disasters in history.”
“Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the “tribe” will desert us to die a sad, lonely death.”
Source: Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
“Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.”
“Humans versus category 6 supermassive hurricanes!”
“Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. Humans. Altogether a contradictory and deeply flawed species. And yet...And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy. Perhaps the only hope.”
Source: The Sacrifice
“Humans want answers, answers that compute; this does not compute Will Robinson! This was dialogue between a young boy and a robot from a TV series in the late 1960s. This TV series was a precursor for the new technology humans were about to be introduced to in the late twentieth century.”
Source: This Is His House and These Are His Rules
“Humans want peace, not war. But, sometimes war is needed to establish peace!”
“Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.”
“Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.”
Source: The One and Only Ivan
“Humans. We are intelligent. We are destructive. We are complex creatures.”
Source: The Governor's Daughter
“Humans- We die every night we close our eyes to go to sleep. Those of you with no imagination return to your lives each morning.”
“Humans, we survive differently. We numb those empty feelings, we revert to anger and hatred. We block out remorse because we no longer want to care. It's an escape of some sort, to hide the long periods of trying to deal with the bouts of bullshit in the right way. We betray ourselves, we lose our values, and worse, we forget who we are.”
Source: Seven Sins
“Humans went from experiential and physical beings to conceptual ones, and one could surmise that in the future we will become even more brainy still. The changes in sedentary lifestyle alone are staggering. Dietary changes might have led to a diabetes since there may be different levels of pancreatic reserve. The explosion of carbohydrate intake that moderns indulge in may surpass the limit of the pancreas to endure, resulting in either childhood diabetes or later onset type 2 diabetes. We must be careful not to outsmart ourselves and in vanquishing the predators that plagues us for millions of years to create new ones. Having moved from chaos to order, we need to appreciate order’s value, to protect and enhance it. Any slide into chaos may well be swift and irreversible.”
Source: Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
“Humans were always far better in inventing tools than using them wisely.”
Source: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Humans were always surprising me.”
Source: The Host
“Humans were always trying to fit in. Many of them didn’t feel like they belonged. When someone came along and was brave enough to show the truth of who they were, flaws and all, it could inspire others to accept themselves as they were.”
Source: The Cat Who Ate His Tail
“Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks”
Source: 11/22/63: A Novel
“Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.”
Source: 100 Selected Stories
“Humans were designed by evolution to live in societies, but they may not understand how societies work.”
Source: Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
“Humans were designed to be the choir directors of creation's praises to God... And the tremendous biodiversity of creation lends rich harmonies to this choir's praise of our Creator. The greater the ecological diversity, the greater potential to maximize praise.”
Source: If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
“Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.”
“Humans were foolish. Careless. Cruel. But only a few. Most were full of light.”
Source: In the Lives of Puppets
“Humans were foolish creatures, and gods were cruel.
- Kissen”
Source: Godkiller
“Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.”
Source: One Life at a Time, Please
“Humans were made for love and beauty; their vulnerability was what made them feel on the deepest level and what could also crush their will to live.”
Source: The Deepest Well
“Humans were made to work in sweet to earn a living. Those that try to get rich or live at the expense of others all get divine retribution somewhere along the line. That's the lesson. unfortunately we forget the lessons quickly and then we have to learn them all over again.”