{"quotes":[{"text":"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affable","alone","amicable","anchoress","anchorite","anthropocentric","anthropocentrism","antisocial","approachable","ascetic","by-oneself","chummy","cloistered","clubby","communicative","companionable","companionless","convivial","cordial","eremite","extrovert","forthcoming","friendless","friendly","genial","gregarious","hail-fellow-well-met","hermit","hermitic","incommunicado","introvert","isolate","isolation","lone-wolf","lonely","loner","lonesome","marabout","misanthrope","misanthropy","on-one-s-own","open","outgoing","recluse","reclusive","responsive","seclude","secluded","sociable","solitarian","solitary","solitudinarian","troglodyte","unaccompanied","unsociable","warm","withdrawn"],"id":125070,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.","author":"Jacob M. Held","tags":["anthropocentric","bad","ego","egotistical","evil","good","human-condition","perspective","philosophy","thinking"],"id":196429,"author_id":"Jacob+M.+Held"},{"text":"We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["animal","animals","anthropocentric","anthropocentrism","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","barbarian","barbaric","barbarism","barbarous","brutish","civilization","civilize","civilized","compare","compare-to","convenience","convenient","creature","creatures","expedience","expedient","funny","heathen","homo-sapiens","human","human-beings","human-race","humanity","humans","humor","humour","ignorant","joke","jokes","liken","liken-to","neanderthal","people","persons","primitive","religion","satire","savage","species","suit","uncivilized","uncultivated","vulgar","wild"],"id":265085,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","anthropocentric","anthropocentrism","aphorism","aphorisms","arrogance","arrogant","axiom","axioms","belief","beliefs","believe","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","gnome","gnomes","humble","humility","humor","humour","importance","important","insightful","life","life-goes-on","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","modest","modesty","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","really","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sincere","sincerely","thought-provoking","thoughtful","truly"],"id":299516,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["animal","animal-kingdom","animals","anthropocentric","anthropocentrism","bible","creation","creature","creatures","culture","human","human-being","human-beings","humans","people","peoples","person","religion","the-bible"],"id":394572,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}