“People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are the only species that has an extra medium of design preservation and design communication: culture.” PeopleBelieveHumansDifferentHumanityCultureHuman BeingsDesignCommunicationSpeciesMediumsExtrasPreservationAche Book:Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life
“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.” HumansDoeArtFormUsedTermHuman BeingsDealsExistenceDesignColorPaintingArt IsWeaknessConcernIntellectInventionRealmsAbstractSubstitutesConceptionContemptArrangementsImaginativeInner LifeProvincesPristineAbstract PaintingTerm Life Author:Edward Hopper
“Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.” HumansPhilosophyHuman BeingsPerfectDesign Author:Novalis
“Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence showing that a wide variety of independent conditions all reached optimality during the identical narrow epoch when human beings appeared on the cosmic and terrestrial scene testifies of supernatural design and purpose rather than mere coincidence.” HumansPurposeHumanityHuman BeingsSupportConditionsDesignCivilizationSceneEvidenceIndependentMereWideVarietyCosmicCoincidenceIdenticalVariablesEpoch Author:Hugh Jackman
“I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.” KnowsWorldWantBelieveHumansHuman BeingsDesignStartingCreditApples Author:Steve Wozniak
“Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.” GivingTryingHumansDoeSeemsMightJoyUniverseHuman BeingsSimpleAbilityGenerationsEventsDesignCreationCapacityIndifferentFuture GenerationKeep TryingSimple ThingsHuman HappinessCapacity To LoveMisdemeanorsCrimes And Misdemeanors Author:Woody Allen
“Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.” HumansProblemHuman BeingsDesignSolutionsSolveIdentifyingIdahoExecutingHuman ProblemsGreat DesignBest Design Author:Ivan Chermayeff
“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.” MenGivingHumansMeanDoeFeelingsCareFallHuman BeingsActingMistakeMoralFateDesignCreaturesEmpathyBuiltFellowsVictimIndifferenceIslandsTwistsSpectatorsDetachedLiving CreaturesTheoremsAndroidsActing OutDonne Author:Philip K. Dick