Humanish Quotes

“Language opens a window into the mind of another human.”
― Justin Gregg, Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize

“There is a very thin line between pathology and normalcy when it comes to anthropomorphizing objects.”
― Justin Gregg, Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize

“we are incessantly at fault in our tendency to anthropomorphise, a tendency which causes us to interpret the actions of animals according to the analogies of human nature.”
― Justin Gregg, Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize

“So anthropomorphism, then, is the act of treating a non-human as if it had a human-like mind even though we know it is not a human.”
― Justin Gregg, Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize

“defining anthropomorphism as “the showing or treating of animals, gods, and objects as if they are human in appearance, character, or behaviour.”
― Justin Gregg, Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize

“definition of anthropomorphism: “attributing capacities that people tend to think of as distinctly human to nonhuman agents, in particular humanlike mental capacities (e.g., intentionality, emotion, cognition).”
― Justin Gregg, Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize