I am not a machine. For what can a machine know of the smell of wet grass in the morning, or the sound of a crying baby? I am the feeling of the warm sun against my skin; I am the sensation of a cool wave breaking over me. I am the places I have never seen, yet imagine when my eyes are closed. I am the taste of another's breath, the color of her hair. You mock me for the shortness of my life span, but it is this very fear of dying which breathes life into me. I am the thinker who thinks of thought. I am curiosity, I am reason, I am love, and I am hatred. I am indifference. I am the son of a father, who in turn was a father’s son. I am the reason my mother laughed and the reason my mother cried. I am wonder and I am wondrous. Yes, the world may push your buttons as it passes through your circuitry. But the world does not pass through me. It lingers. I am in it and it is in me. I am the means by which the universe has come to know itself. I am the thing no machine can ever make. I am meaning. Bernard Beckett
About This Quote

This is a very powerful quote. It is one of the most well-known quotes in philosophy which says that “I am not a machine”. This quote is so powerful because it shows us how complex human beings are. We are so much more than just our bodies.

We are so much more than our thoughts and feelings. I am not a machine because I feel, I love, I laugh, I smile, I eat, I sleep. We are so much more than our bodies and our minds.

We are the meaning of the world and everything in it. This poem shows us how complex humans are and that we should never underestimate them.

Source: Genesis

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  1. Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
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