As human beings we have the power to imagine our world, to create... and cocreate... and to cohabit it.

I look upon human beings as automatons..because they all think they can do what they want but they can't.They are not free.No one is

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

How strange. Humans always seem so much in control. Is it just a grand act, to fool both others and themselves?

They can because they think they can.

They can because they think they can.

So often we’re seduced into believing that events control our lives and that our environment has shaped who we are today.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Human beings have a remarkable talent for persuading themselves of the authenticity and nobility of aspects of themselves which are in fact expedient, spurious, base.

Having' something makes us think we can control it.

Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. … Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

Perhaps humans have always had this ridiculous belief in the absolute excellence of the present, this conviction that the world into which they have had the marvelous good luck to be born is the best world that ever was, the best that ever will be.