Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents one of the most complex things we know.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

Economic theory does not work with human beings. We are far too messy.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large organization. The reason is that it's full of people, who are complicated.

I am like any other human being; I am full of different sides.

I'm a very complex person. I have different people inside me, but it's still me.

Everyone has different sides to them, and we're constantly changing.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

We used to think that aging was a lot like, as if we were cars made fresh and youthful and then we've entered this breakdown in diet. What we didn't realize until recently is that we're much more complex than a car. We fix ourselves if we're broken.

Humans are the most complicated, nuanced things that exist. We can't be reduced to labels or summed up with five traits - even if they are the Big Five.

A human being has a lot of sides, like a kind of diversity, so it's like a good side, a bad side, a crazy side, a normal side, like a man-ish side, a woman-ish side.

It's not a secret that I'm, like, 12 different people rolled into one. Like a lot of people are.

We are more than one part of ourselves.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.