This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid...

Yuval Noah Harari

Tags: deus, harari, history, homo, noah, sapiens, yuval

The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.

Kenneth Grahame

The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.

Kenneth Grahame

Tags: homo, sapiens

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

Douglas McGregor

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

Douglas McGregor

Tags: homo, sapiens

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

Ayi Kwei Armah

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

Ayi Kwei Armah

Tags: homo, sapiens

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

Henry George

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

Henry George

Tags: homo, sapiens

I am mortal born to love and to suffer.

Friedrich Holderlin

I am mortal born to love and to suffer.

Friedrich Holderlin

Tags: homo, sapiens

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Hermann Hesse

Tags: homo, sapiens

About Henry Hewes

Henry Hewes may refer to:

Henry Hewes (critic) (1917–2006), American theater writer for Saturday Review
Henry Hewes (politician) (born 1949), American activist, son of above