“Mrs. Horowitz said, It is inexcusable that humans think they can murder other animals because they murder themselves. I must tell you, I hate humans. They terrify me. They should, I continued. I interviewed Yehudi Menuhin the other day.”
“Yeah, good luck with that. Trying to get humans not to touch dangerous things was a full-time job.”
“Perhaps they d been conditioned by all the quarantines and blackouts, all the invisible boundaries CSIRA erected on a moment s notice. The rules changed from one second to the next, the rug could get pulled out just because the wind blew some exotic weed outside its acceptable home range. You couldn t fight something like that, you couldn t fight the wind. All you could do was adapt. People were evolving into herd animals. Or maybe just accepting that that s what they d always been.”
“We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.”
“People can never get enough of something new and different.”
“Humans are emotional beings. They love when they are listened to, motivated, and nurtured.”
“One important thing that you have to remember is that the human brain is always looking for instant gratification and instant results which is why many of us end up spending more budget on making our office or store prettier rather than on marketing.”
“humans are not as simple and why would we be? We are not bots whose behavior can be predicted. We are humans, we are more complex, we are more emotional.”
“Human beings are unknowable. You can never know a single person fully, not even yourself. Even if you think you know yourself in your safe glass castle, you don’t know yourself in the dirt. Even if you hustle and make in the rough, you have no idea if you would thrive or die in the light of real riches, if your cleverness would outlive your desperation.”
“The odour of humans is always a fleshy odour — that is, a sinful odour.”
“When dealing with humans, we re too entangled in the triviality of normality of each other that we never consider to zoom out and marvel and ponder over the parts that signify each other s rarity.”
“Like a rockbud, humans were. Soft at first, but capable of gripping onto the stone and growing into something practically immovable.”
“Mofos gonna mofo”
“Lo maravilloso de la ciencia, algo que nos deja perplejos, es que a pesar de todas las limitaciones que nos afectan - temporales, espaciales, cognitivas- hemos sido capaces de comprender bastante bien cómo es el mundo de una forma profunda y significativa. El saber cómo es nuestro mundo, cuál es nuestro lugar en él tanto en el espacio como en el tiempo, cómo llegamos al presente y hacia dónde posiblemente nos dirigimos es la historia más fascinante que conocemos y un triunfo de nuestras limitadas mentes. La ciencia ha descubierto la inimaginable extensión del tiempo, la fraternidad de todos los seres vivo del planeta (la evolución biológica), y la unidad de toda las cosas (la teoría atómica de la materia.”
“The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up.”
“Reality is designed to keep people lost.”
“... across the aeons and the global distances what all the peoples of the world really have in common is so many similar ways of doing humiliating and painful things to each other.”