Tag: human nature
14 quotes
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Even if they had all the other good things, still no one would want to live without friends.
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Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice. Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure,...
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History, as it is said, doesn’t repeat itself. It only rhymes. The mistakes made at one point in time have an eerie way of reemerging two generations later, as memories fade.
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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Regarding science and spirituality…”the contemplation of our own selves and human nature, the miracle of its existence as a product of natural evolution, the amazing fact that a man is a mere portion of the common and universal substance of the...
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Life can be divided into work and leisure, and war and peace; and of actions, some aim at what is necessary and useful, while others aim at what is noble…Just as war is for the sake of peace, so work is for the sake of leisure and what is...
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Somehow we keep forgetting that human nature is but a fractal of nature itself.
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Trees Trees know these things – how to survive by bending with the wind stretching roots to quench thirst. When branches break from winter’s wet snow, trees know how to heal wounds make do with what remains. They even know how to die...
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But humans ultimately are stupid, myopic creatures and their governing structures run by greedy, self-absorbed boobs.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.
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A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it
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You have to do whatever you can’t not do.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon.
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AI isn't talking to us - we are talking to ourselves.