Tag: human condition
30 quotes
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Humankind will proceed toward perfection when it feels that humanity is: A limitless sky and a shoreless ocean, an ever-blazing flame, an eternally gleaming light, a wind when it gusts and when it is calm, a cloud when it thunders and lightnings...
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I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive… so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
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Good house, to me you were but a device To keep the rain outside, a shelter where I could change clothes unseen, dodge winter's ice, And sometimes hang the hat I seldom wear And also harbor bugs and molds and mice Pyromaniac wiring and...
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We are born without choosing to, to parents we haven’t chosen, into bodies and borders we haven’t chosen, to exist in a region of spacetime we haven’t chosen for a duration we don’t choose.
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We are not enough in love with our existence.
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In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate with just two people, we are indeed very...
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The most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his...
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Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the...
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No man was ever wise by chance.
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In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.
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What we see is never raw reality, pure as spacetime what we see is our interpretation of reality, filtered through the lens of our experience and our conditioned worldview. Always, the way we look at things shapes what we see; often, the lens we...
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You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometime you might find You get what you need
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These early days of AI are already absurd. Humans, walking and talking bags of water and trace chemicals that we are, have managed to convince well-organized sand to pretend to think like us.
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SPELL AGAINST INDIFFERENCE The rain falls and falls cool, bottomless, and prehistoric falls like night not an ablution not a baptism just a small reason to remember all we know of Heaven to remember we are still here with our love songs...
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It bears repeating that what makes life livable is our ability our willingness to move through the world wonder-smitten by reality. The most wonderful thing about wonder is that it knows no scale, no class, no category it can be found in a geranium...
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I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human being, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to an...
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How can man know himself? He is a dark and veiled thing; and whereas the hare has seven skins, the human being can shed seven times 70 skins and still not be able to say: ‘This is really you, this is no longer an outer shell. Besides, it is an...
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Despite our best efforts, some things we believe are probably wrong. We certainly are very keen on recognizing the errors of past times and other nations. Why should our nation, why should our time, be different? If there are things that we believe,...
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
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There is a science of life, but life itself is no science. We need to invent and give meaning to what we do and experience. It is an unavoidable feature of the human condition.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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There are two extremes to worry about. One is the extreme in which everything is known and there’s nothing left to do. The other is where everything is so complicated you can never begin to do anything. We are lucky to live in a universe were...
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Life is like this. It’s uncertain. It’s uncomfortable. It doesn’t really care whether we really want or need something. It doesn’t care about us at all, really. It just is.
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Everything we do from this point onward is rearranging the seats on the deck of the Titanic
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I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together
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The man will be, by then, at the end of his journey of learning, and almost without warning he will come upon the last of his enemies: Old age! This enemy is the cruellest of all, the one he won’t be able to defeat completely, but only fight...
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Humility amounts to an understanding that the world is not divided into good and bad people, but rather it is made up of all manner of individuals, each broken in their own way, each caught up in the common human struggle and each having the...
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Between the scale of atoms and the scale of stars, between the time of mayflies and the time of mountains, we exist as proteins lit up with purpose, matter yearning for meaning on a planet capable of trees and tenderness, a world on which every...