Luke Harper Quotes

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the Internet. But we're still very animalistic.

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

A consciousness of history is one of the key factors that distinguishes us from other animals.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Every human being has an assortment of diverse identities, and it greatly matters which one is triggered by social situations, which hold up different kinds of mirrors. The same is true for nations.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

I really like investigating the things that make us human.

The way we like to think of ourselves is not the way we look. We like to think of ourselves as more evolved than we frequently are.

I model as a human being.

Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you?

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

I'm real comfortable around people, and it took a long time for me to evolve to that point.

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Being just yourself means you're unselfconscious in that moment. Or maybe we're all self-conscious to an extent. You meet a pretty girl, you're different from when you meet a tough kid on the street. So perhaps we always are acting, in a sense. But you meet someone you feel you admire or you "know," and it'll be different for that reason. So far, it's an interesting ride, and I'm curious to see what I can find next.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just intelligence - a new, evolving life form arising within our datasphere and coming into living relation with humanity.