I suppose a human’s carriage is a dwarf’s bus.

What is the bottom line for the animal/human hierarchy? I think it is at the animate/inanimate line, and Carol Adams and others are close to it: we eat them. This is what humans want from...

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future

A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen...

Humans are almost always lonely.

Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous...

(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all the things that dogs do so easily. This drives some people crazy. Cats do not even...

People are so stupid. They think they’ve got the whole puzzle figured out, but they’re really so far off.

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and...

Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification–crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed,...

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another...

Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied...

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.

Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities.

Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.

My men are my money.

After I leave the earth my work is anyway going to belong to the world for centuries but till that time I want to work freely.

at first sight everyone seems like human.

Few people when meet first time they feel that meeting each other was the purpose of their life.

Saying “thank you” signifies sense of gratitude, but it also implies your incapability.

If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don’t have both then you are in serious trouble.

Let’s get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession.

Vampire Willow Rosenberg: “In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

My birthday is coming up. I was born on March 5th, 1982. Humans have come a long way since then—nearly 30 years, if my math is good. And my math better be good, because if...

Why do Twolegs do anything? If we knew that, our lives would be a lot easier.

God had conceived humans’ heterosexuals; until they start making initiatives.

So many of the world’s problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.

People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it’s quiet clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment.

Life in a box was unbearable.How did humans stand it?

So she looked upon the wolves, who were dwindling in number, and back at the humans who no longer cared for their own, and combined their spirits. She took the loyal, protective, possessive natures of...

But these words people threw around – humans, monsters, heroes, villains – to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone...

Ah, this dear old planet! All is clear now. We know ourselves; we now know of what we are capable.

Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.

I don’t understand this irony – valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

Sell your materials but save your morals.

If you don’t have the confidence to ask, you will never have the confidence to convince.

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.

There are no boring jobs, only boring men.

My action is my prayer.

Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.

Heroism of your father doesn’t make you a hero, heroism of you doesn’t make your son a hero.

Now may every living thing, young or old,weak or strong, living near or far, known orunknown, living or departed or yet unborn,may every living thing be full of bliss.

Mandela alikuwa hodari ndiyo maana akapelekwa jela. Alikuwa mvumilivu ndiyo maana akakaa jela kwa miaka ishirini na saba. Alivyotoka akawa kiongozi bora wa Afrika Kusini. Utu ukafanya awasamehe binadamu wenzake. Urithi wa Nelson Mandela kwetu...

farmed animals” in the way that we treat dogs and cats whom we love and regard as members of our family. Does anyone really think that is practically possible? The fact that we would not...

They all call me “Excuse me,” even though my nametag clearly says “Jordan.” It’s like people don’t actually exist while they’re working. Workers are just tools who aren’t supposed to have feelings or personalities. You...

To be sure, there are human abilities that other animals lack, but the more we learn about animals, the more abilities we discover that humans lack. Obviously, if animals were included in the Olympics, humans...

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer