If you want to see something done, just tell some human beings it can’t be done. Make it known that it’s impossible to fly to the moon, or run a hundred meters in nine-point-nine seconds, or solve Fermat’s Last Theorem. Remind the world that no one has ever hit sixty-two home runs in a season. […]
Human - Humanity Quotes
It is your human environment that makes climate.
We should not discount Jean-Luc Picard yet. He is human – and humans have a way of showing up when you least expect them. (Commander Sela, “Redemption”)
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
Mankind owes its existence to about 6 inches of topsoil and the fact that it usually rains.
Man would be other wise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
Ultimately, intelligence work comes down to dealing with humanity. After all the calls are intercepted and the missiles counted, the back accounts monitored and the nerve gas canisters located, we still need to look inside the minds, hearts and souls of other human beings. And unlike the mechanical and electronic things of which we are […]
Beware of the pursuit of the Superhuman; it leads to an indiscriminate contempt for the human.
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
Those who insist that all things are knowable and that men and women act rationally have been on one side of the stadium of mankind for centuries, while the opposing bleachers have been filled by those who insist that even the light of reason casts dark shadows and that man’s nature is never fully knowable. […]
