Humanity Quotes - Page 18

Dont let her clothes down for your sexual need.

In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire-in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation-that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive-belongs to the particularity of being human.

Most people are on the world, not in it - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

Trees're always a relief, after people.

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.

Humanity is the cancer of nature.

Where would the end be? Will the idea - the definition - of perfection stay the same? No. Perfection is too fickle. It’s in our nature to never be satisfied. We always think we can do more.

Recently I keep thinking that this isn’t about the survival of a species. It’s about why we’re never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more.

So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.

Da una parte il cielo era tutto schiarito, e vi brillavano certe stellucce umide, sperdute nella sua grandezza, come in una sconfinata parete di metallo, da dove, sulla terra, venisse a cadere qualche misero soffio di vento.

Those who teach the most about humanity, aren’t always human.

A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us.

We are not our thought we are just prisoner of our Identification of thought