Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not.
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
Humanity is not common in its views.
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
Speech is civilization itself.