"Man is a problem-creating animal."

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"Man is a problem-creating animal."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Human, Problem, Behavior, Life

"Gemma had blond hair and blue eyes. I did not.Gemma was always an A student. I was more of a B-all-you-can-be kind of gal.When Gemma was into science, I was into skipping.When Gemma was into foreign languages, I was into the hot Italian guy down the street."

Darynda Jones, American Author

Human, Comparison, Identity, Education, Observation

"We are but a bunch of neurons."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Human, Truth, Life, Wisdom, Power

"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?"

Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Novelist

Human, Empathy, Understanding, Compassion, Love

"Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Human, Ideal, Mind, God

"She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp it in her own understanding. Her active living was suspended, but underneath, in the darkness, something was coming to pass. If only she could break through the last integuments!"

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

Human, Life, Self, Reflection, Understanding

"A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Human, Emotion, Reflection, Shame, Awareness

"He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Human, Reason, Humanity, Light, Knowledge

"I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things."

Patrick Ness, American Author

Human, Worry, Love, Observation, Awareness

"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Human, Understanding, Kindness, Love, Empathy

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"We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder."

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"I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do."

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"Man is a problem-creating animal."

"Gemma had blond hair and blue eyes. I did not.Gemma was always an A student. I was more of a B-all-you-can-be kind of gal.When Gemma was into science, I was into skipping.When Gemma was into foreign languages, I was into the hot Italian guy down the street."

"We are but a bunch of neurons."

"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?"

"Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man."

"A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives."

"He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast."

"I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things."

"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."

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"We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder."

"I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do."

"Where our attention goes, our mind and body go, too."

"The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: feeling."

"Who gave fire permission to burn?"

"Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long."

"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."

"We never solve the big questions, we outgrow them."

"When set out to create order, they create only misery."

"Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers."