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“It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how to do it. It follows, therefore, that anyone who claims that he can fly must have sought the aid of the devil. To attempt to fly is therefore sinful.”

Giving Humans Happens Human Beings Impossible Devil Claims Aids Flight Aviation

Author:Roger Bacon

“We are on the earth, and they tell us of heaven; we are human beings, and they tell us of angels and devils; we are matter, and they tell us of spirit; we have five senses whereby to admit truths, and a reasoning faculty by which to build our belief upon them; and they tell us of dreams dreamed thousands of years ago, which our experience flatly contradicts.”

Years Humans Matter Dream Earth Spirit Belief Heaven Human Beings Five Devil Angel Years Ago Senses Reasoning Faculty Five Senses Angel And Devil

Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“I think there's a part when you sign your soul to the devil and start working in Los Angeles that you also sign away that you could be a human being in anyone's eye. You're like a robot!”

Thinking Humans Soul Eye Human Beings Heard Devil Your Soul Los Angeles Robots Amber

Author:Amber Heard

“I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.”

World Humans Human Beings Animal Pieces Battle Devil Adults Cruelty Trails Prey Casual Animal World Piglet Lioness Crocs Dingoes Tasmanian Devils

Book:Steve & Me

Source: Steve & Me

“And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.”

Humans Human Beings Students Devil Complicated Good And Bad

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.”

People Needs Humans Human Beings Devil Commit Inward Disguise Horns Mentoring Facilitate Odd Thomas Savagery

Book:The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

“Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image”

Humans Kind Done Human Beings Reflection Devil Brutality Savagery

Book:Three Complete Novels

Source: Three Complete Novels

“...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.”

Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays

“The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.”

Humans May Culture Individual Force Justice Human Beings Sin Class Modern Diversity Devil Social Justice Ancient Innocent Damn Devices Artificial

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel good. To hold a grudge against anyone is like carrying the devil on your shoulders. It is our willingness to forgive and forget that casts away such a burden and brings light into our hearts, freeing us from many ill feelings against our fellow human beings.”