“My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.” HumansCultureFatherMy OwnHuman BeingsSonHusbandDegreesMalesNotionSubversiveFather Husband Author:Mark Leyner
“The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.” IfsWayTryingHumansArtMatterEarthForceHuman BeingsTruth IsDegreesOceanBiggerBoatRhythmMartial ArtsAcademicNinjaWild Places Author:Rachael Taylor
“If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.” IfsHumansHas BeensDifferentHuman BeingsAttentionBearsDegreesCorporateSurroundEntityArtifacts Author:William Gibson
“A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.” HumansCharacterFormDesireHuman BeingsDegreesIdealsPerfectionImperfectionPortions Book:Success and Its Conditions Source: Success and Its Conditions
“'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.” HumansFacesHuman BeingsAttentionPlanetsDegreesDeserveFabulousForrest Gump Author:Tom Hanks
“It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.” HumansCharacterIndividualHuman BeingsEffectsHuman NatureDramaDegreesDisappearDramaticIndividualismDetrimental Author:Franz Grillparzer
“At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree?” IfsHumansWholeCharacterLawHuman BeingsMoralDutyDegreesLaborContraryAriseSufficientLatterDivisionOrgansOrganismsUrgentLaws Of NatureThoroughDivision Of LaborParts Of A Whole Author:Emile Durkheim
“The sphere ... which is located beyond our physical world is called the earth zone. It is also known as the zone girdling the earth. This zone has varying degrees of density, the so-called sub-planes, into which human beings enter after they leave their physical bodies. This is the astral world that individuals enter into with their astral bodies after their physical death.” WorldHumansBodyEarthIndividualHuman BeingsKnownMagicDegreesPlanesZoneMysticismSpheresPhysical BodyDensity Author:Franz Bardon