“What I have observed about humans and animals so far: 90% of humans around me are LUSTY, SELFISH, EGOISTIC, CUNNING, MONEY-MINDED, ARROGANT, THANKLESS, UNEMPATHETIC, FAMILY & SELF OBSESSED, SOURCE of IRRITATION & TENSION, and last but not least, they SUCK WHEREAS 99.9% of the animals around me are SELFLESS, SATISFIED, STRESSBUSTERS, LOYAL, SOURCE of SELFLESS LOVE, and INSPIRATIONAL. REST 0.1% of animals might ve hurt or shown aggression to someone due to ILLNESS, INJURY, HUNGER, CRUELTY, FRUSTRATION, and last but not least, FEAR CREATED by so-called HUMANS Conclusion: ANIMALS are better than HUMANS”
“Ne pas lui sourire, c est déjà lui déclarer la guerre.”
“Well, now it looks as if the time’s come for witchers. You’re reading Roderick de Novembre? As far as I remember, there are mentions of witchers there, of the first ones who started work some three hundred years ago. In the days when the peasants used to go to reap the harvest in armed bands, when villages were surrounded by a triple stockade, when merchant caravans looked like the march of regular troops, and loaded catapults stood on the ramparts of the few towns night and day. Because it was us, human beings, who were the intruders here. This land was ruled by dragons, manticores, griffins and amphisboenas, vampires and werewolves, striga, kikimoras, chimera and flying drakes. And this land had to be taken from them bit by bit, every valley, every mountain pass, every forest and every meadow. And we didn’t manage that without the invaluable help of witchers. But those times have gone, Geralt, irrevocably gone. The baron won’t allow a forktail to be killed because it’s the last draconid for a thousand miles and no longer gives rise to fear but rather to compassion and nostalgia for times passed. The troll under the bridge gets on with people. He’s not a monster used to frighten children. He’s a relic and a local attraction -- and a useful one at that. And chimera, manticores and amphisboenas? They dwell in virgin forests and inaccessible mountains--”
“Without Hope, any god is useless.”
“I don t know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was.”
“. . . I just don t think humanity is the ultimate end. We re so smug about ourselves, secure about how much we know. Well, I ve lived with cats most of my life, so I m very aware that there s another world going on. . . . it sees everything differently, hears everything differently, and probably thinks differently.”
“Mice don’t seek danger, not the way we do. They, like everything else on this planet, are subject to the whims of humans. My whims involved tests that could greatly advance our understanding of the brain, and my desire to understand the brain superseded every other desire I had. I understood that the same thing that made humans great—our recklessness and creativity and curiosity—was also the thing that hampered the lives of everything around us. Because we were the animal daring enough to take boats out to sea, even when we thought the world was flat and that our boats would fall off the edge, we discovered new land, different people, roundness. The cost of this discovery was the destruction of that new land, those different people. Without us oceans wouldn’t be turning to acid, frogs and bats and bees and reefs wouldn’t be heading for extinction. Without me, the limping mouse wouldn’t limp; he would never have succumbed to addiction.”
“Many people say all sorts of things, they usually do others, and they prove what they say even less.”
“Think, Penelope, Fulcanelli blurted out. We don t have time for this. You see, humans are the weakest of all the animals because we so rarely see a clear purpose for ourselves.”
“It s so easy for humans to blame God for their misery, Manfri said. Really, it s mostly of their own making.”
“Wisdom is not judging others by superficial differences but noting the almost endless similarity that all humans share.”
“Today, humans in cities will see a hundred beings in just minutes, naming them strangers, a dehumanizing designation.”
“Human beings connect so easily, it s as if we share the same brains.”
“Working at high altitudes is known to aggravate underlying health issues in sea level adapted humans.”
“People who want things for free are dangerous , because they don t have conscious, shame, dignity, respect,morals and limitations on what they can do, to get those things.”
“The refugee crisis, resulting from the armed conflicts, persecution, violence, war, and so on In such cases, these refugees face various problems. Instead, we must find ways to problems and about their grief. Refugees are like us humans. There should be best efforts to bring information to public attention, empathy, security and to join them in the social mainstream.”
“Every human creature is a terror to every other human creature. Human minds are like unknown planets, encountering and colliding.”