No subscription or hidden extras
Read through the most famous quotes by topic #humans
If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans. If we speak of the history of the species at all, it is only to signify the unknowable sum of these lives. As with other animals, some lives are happy, others wretched. None has a meaning that lies beyond itself. ↗
#humanity #humans #life #man #straw-dogs
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. ↗
Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. ↗
#humans #life #sensibility #death
Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you. ↗
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗
