Sapiens Quotes - Page 2

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

People are too durable that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves they last too long.

That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.

There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo Sapiens.

I am a man nothing human is alien to me.

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 ways, and were less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the extra food did not translate into a better diet or more leisure. Rather, it translated into population explosions and pampered elites. The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

I am mortal born to love and to suffer.

Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

The forgotten man. He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works he votes generally he prays but his chief business in life is to pay.

When humans began cultivating the land, they thought that the extra work this required will pay off. 'Yes, we will have to work harder. But the harvest will be so bountiful! We won't have to worry any more about lean years. Our children will never go to sleep hungry.' It made sense.If you worked harder, you would have a better life. That was the plan.The first part of the plan went smoothly. People indeed worked harder. But people did not foresee that the number of children would increase, meaning that the extra wheat would have to be shared between more children.Neither did the early farmers understand that feeding children with more porridge and less breast milk would weaken their immune system, and that permanent settlements would be hotbeds for infectious diseases.They did not foresee that by increasing their dependence on a single source of food, they were actually exposing themselves even more to the depredations of drought. Nor did the farmers foresee that in good years their bulging granaries would tempt thieves and enemies, compelling them to start building walls and doing guard duty.

Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.

Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...

The race of man while sheep in credulity are wolves for conformity.

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.

The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self a journey into our killer's desire.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.

If heaven made him earth can find some use for him.