“Man guesses, spirits act.”
“In its purest form love is still dangerous and corruptible. The unpredictable nature of humans and their response to love undermines it, even in its purest form...”
“People began to live ON the earth rather than WITHIN it”
“Here these fools-I m trying to conquer a new element-trying to do a thing that will revolutionise life. And instead of taking an intelligent interest, they grin and make their stupid jokes, and call me and my appliances names.”
“As everything we do in this world, be it work, business, politics or relationships, it is through humans, and we may still be successful if we understand and use the basic laws governing human nature and behavior to our advantage.”
“If you think about it, birthdays are really pagan rituals about chanting around a flaming object that represents the amount of years taken off your life, upon which the flames are blown out and a knife is stabbed through it.”
“Isn t it funny? How the cold numbs everything but grief. If we could light up the room with pain, we d be such a glorious fire.”
“If people laugh at primates at the zoo, they do so, I suspect, precisely because they re unsettled by the mirror held up to them.”
“it s hard to fool an ape. One reason for that is the absence of distraction by the spoken word. We attach such importance to verbal communication that we lose track of what our bodies say about us.”
“Primates arouse a certain nervousness because they show us ourselves in a brutally honest light, reminding us,.....that we are mere naked apes.”
“Humans are fond of chasing illusions,” Pirouzeh says.”
“Life is not meant to be foretold, Little Light. It is meant to be lived.”
“HSPs do more of that which makes humans different from other animals: We imagine possibilities. We humans, and HSPs especially, are acutely aware of the past and future.”
“Have patience with the byzantine can of worms that is you. Cluttered and sloppy and chaotic, you may be, but you’re easy on the eye and you’re getting warmer.”
“Animals have learnt to live in harmony. Humans must be kind to their fellow kind.”
“Sometimes I feel I owe a stranger nothing, and then I feel I owe him everything; because he fought and I didn t, because I dismissed him or misunderstood him, because I forgot, for a moment, that his life - like everyone else s - holds more than I could ever possibly see.”
“God loved humans but humans loved themselves instead, that s where all it began from.”