“Man, as we say, is a tame or civilized animal; nevertheless, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.”— Plato, amazon.com
“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions.”— Salman Rushdie, amazon.com
“Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions.”— Salman Rushdie, amazon.com
“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.”— E. H. Gombrich, quotemadness.com
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com
“Human beings act very much like storms when there’s something to say. Very rarely in nature does a deluge catch you by complete surprise. There are the signs before - the sky darkening, the wind picking up, the air smelling like rain even before a drop has hit.”— David Levithan, amazon.com