“ The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels. Benjamin Disraeli
“ Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied. Henry George
“ The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. Hermann Hesse
“ The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it. Kenneth Grahame
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ... Seneca
“ 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. Desmond Morris
“ A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour. Joseph Wood Krutch
“ This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour loses its relevance. The more data we have and the better we unde… Yuval Noah Harari
