Famous quotes containing the word beings:
“I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eyes.”
—Pierre Simon De Laplace (1749–1827)
“...what is prized by human beings is an abomination in the sight of God.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 16:15.