Herbert Gold Quotes

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us.

There's a softer and harder person in everyone, depending on the time.

I believe we are all dual beings. Some cultures actually believe we have two souls.

When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.

The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.

The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different things. We are biological creatures, we are animals, no doubt, but when you talk about "humando," you're talking about that particular kind of animals who are aware of their impending extinction, who have the capacity to be sensitive to catastrophe and disaster and calamity and profound crisis.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

To laugh is proper to man.

When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more altruistic than any primate that I know.

I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….