Sapiens Quotes

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

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

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.

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

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

Together you are a species that grows in all aspects of life – separated you are a mere speck of dust in vast ocean of space-time capable of nothing progressive.

To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

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

How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realize some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realize this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another – some cultures forbid them to realize this possibility. Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist.

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

Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.

I am mortal born to love and to suffer.

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

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