Dale Turner Quotes

We may be human, but we're still animals.

No one likes change but babies in diapers.

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

We're all part of humanity. And maybe there's something about the worst people, with the most destructive, warped minds, that is just an acceleration of something that is in quite a few of us.

If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous.

Without even knowing why, we believe that to learn how to be human - which we have many years to do, for human beings have longer childhoods than any other species, a feature that to biologists and philosophers alike is one of our race's distinguishing characteristics - children must be surrounded by animal imagery.

It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency.

People are animals, man.

To be human is to err, isn't it?

How children attempt to deal with everyday comedies and tragedies, and mortality, is universal and ultimately such a large part of what it means to be human.

We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.

We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.