#uma

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#air #begins #constructs #fiction #givens

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#between #differences #human #learned #much

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#because #claimed #common #construct #genes

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#beings #believe #believes #biological #classification

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. ↗

— John Ruskin

#education #human #human souls #leading #making

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. ↗

— John Ruskin

#ever #fish #free #great #however

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. ↗

— John Ruskin

#country #greatest #greatest number #happy #human

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

#does #ever #greatest #greatest thing #human

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#disguise #elegant #happiness #hatred #human

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#crowd #fear #great #humanely #influence