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H L Mencken
: The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
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Soren Kierkegaard :
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.
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Martin Heidegger :
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein :
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Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings. (p. 67e)
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Gilbert K Chesterton :
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Man can hardly be defined, after the fashion of Carlyle, as an animal who makes tools; ants and beavers and many other animals make tools, in the sense that they make an apparatus. Man can be defined as an animal that makes dogmas. As he piles doctrine on doctrine and conclusion on conclusion in the formation of some tremendous scheme of philosophy and religion, he is, in the only legitimate sense of which the expression is capable, becoming more and more human.
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Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they'll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they'll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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Raymond Passworthy: But... we're such little creatures. Poor humanity's so fragile, so weak. Little... little animals.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
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For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong
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A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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