Quotes on Humans

Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about."

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.