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| 40c5889 | By means of the simple folk remedy of ascribing to feeling what is the millennia-long labor of reason and of its understanding, all are spared the bother of rational insight and knowledge. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 99b2425 | It is when subjective consciousness maintains its independence of everything, that it says, 'It is I who through my educated thoughts can annul all determinations of right, morality, good, &c., because I am clearly master of them, and I know that if anything seems good to me I can easily subvert it, because things are only true to me in so far as they please me now.' This irony is thus only a trifling with everything, and it can transform a.. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 46b4e5f | is--it is necessary to come first to an understanding concerning knowledge, which is looked upon as the instrument by which to take possession of the Absolute, or as the means through which to get a sight of it. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 8274848 | It is not a very pleasing spectacle to observe uncultivated ignorance and crudity of mind, with neither form nor taste, without the capacity to concentrate its thoughts on an abstract proposition, still less on a connected statement of such propositions, confidently proclaiming itself to be intellectual freedom and | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 7ccb4d0 | Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject. | true substance | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| 791dea5 | Words do have consequences, and what one generation says but does not really believe, the next generation may believe, and even act upon. | Peter Singer | ||
| bc7d986 | Living a minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of our spare resources to make the world a better place. Living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good we can. | Peter Singer | ||
| cae8193 | Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings. | evolution morality evolutionary-psychology | Peter Singer | |
| b1ec470 | But pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being | Peter Singer | ||
| 48d690e | We think of lions and wolves as savage because they kill; but they must kill, or starve. Humans kill other animals for sport, to satisfy their curiosity, to beautify their bodies, and to please their palates. | Peter Singer | ||
| 3cca65e | It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them. | self-awareness | Peter Singer | |
| 6bec364 | But suppose my daughters had approached me as we often approach God. "Hey, Dad, glad you're home. Here is what I want. More toys. More candy. And can we go to Disneyland this summer?" "Whoa," I would have wanted to say. "I'm not a waiter, and this isn't a restaurant. I'm your father, and this is our house. Why don't you just climb up on Daddy's lap and let me tell you how much I love you?" Ever thought God might want to do the same with you.. | Max Lucado | ||
| 0649573 | Cutting out meat would do more to help combat climate change than any other action we could feasibly take in the next 20 years. | Peter Singer | ||
| e8d61e5 | say that people are "humane" is to say that they are kind; to say that they are "beastly," "brutal," or simply that they behave "like animals" is to suggest that they are cruel and nasty. We rarely stop to consider that the animal who kills with the least reason to do so is the human animal. We think of lions and wolves as savage because they kill; but they must kill, or starve. Humans kill other animals for sport, to satisfy their curiosit.. | Peter Singer | ||
| 8b8b1f8 | If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can solve the problems we face, whether they are what to do about climate change, the world's poor, the problems of Australia's Indigenous people, or the prospect of a future in which we can genetically modify our offspring. An education in the humanities is as valuable today as it was in Plato's time. | education humanities | Peter singer | |
| d223224 | There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| f419cb9 | I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should. | Laurence Yep | ||
| 0b5a608 | Jesus was crucified by Rome because his messianic aspirations threatened the occupation of Palestine, and his zealotry endangered the Temple authorities. | Reza Aslan | ||
| a58b723 | The reason crucifixion was so common is because it was so cheap. It could be carried out almost anywhere; all one needed was a tree. The torture could last for days without the need for an actual torturer. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 3ba3b4f | No one speaks for God--not even the prophets (who speak about God). | Reza Aslan | ||
| 17f6556 | That, more than anything else, explains why, throughout human history, religion has been a force both for boundless good and for unspeakable evil; why the same faith in the same God inspires love and compassion in one believer, hatred and violence in another; why two people can approach the same scripture at the same time and come away with two radically opposing interpretations of it. Indeed, most of the religious conflicts that continue t.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 8fa1779 | Today, Medina is simultaneously the archetype of Islamic democracy and the impetus for Islamic militancy. Islamic Modernists like the Egyptian writer and political philosopher Ali Abd ar-Raziq (d. 1966) pointed to Muhammad's community in Medina as proof that Islam advocated the separation of religious and temporal power, while Muslim extremists in Afghanistan and Iran have used the same community to fashion various models of Islamic theocra.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 9cd16ae | There is no evidence that Jesus himself openly advocated violent actions. But he was certainly no pacifist. "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword" (Matthew 10:34 | Luke 12:51)." | Reza Aslan | ||
| 459f068 | We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down. | war targets vulnerability | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 8c84568 | Walking the plank is a Victorian fiction, and I will not have it on my ship! | history humour pirates | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 5e52bf1 | This was real life, not a book. And in | fiction life someday real legacy | Danielle Steele | |
| 3cb69e4 | l y't~ lmwt dy'man Hsb mw`dh, 'w km hw mukhTT lh. | Danielle Steel | ||
| efd6c89 | Love is a shoot star that lands in your heart, and lives forever. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 585a701 | Everett thought about it for a minute before he answered. "I go on with my life. I keep coming to meetings. And I love her forever." | Danielle Steel | ||
| a37bdd4 | Can a recovering alcoholic and a nun be happy together? Stay tuned. | Danielle Steel | ||
| cf05af6 | The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety. | titanic technology | Deborah Hopkinson | |
| e1e412f | Here was a man who wanted what no one had wanted before: he wanted to get to know the inner workings of the doll-like woman who was me. Karl wasn't interested in me; neither was Johnson. But Kijima's father liked me for who I was. The realization left me feeling numb. I was touched. But being touched is not the same as feeling desire. And I didn't exist without desire. If I didn't exist, then what? | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 6a4da0e | Our gods did not come to us in any specific form, but we held them in our hearts and understood them in our own way. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| eef22a3 | It' her life, and she' in the middle of it. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| 670a471 | In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| 2048970 | The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| b5fa5e6 | When men and women are rewarded for greed, greed becomes a corrupting motivator. When we equate the gluttonous consumption of the earth's resources with a status approaching sainthood, when we teach our children to emulate people who live unbalanced lives, and when we define huge sections of the population as subservient to an elite minority, we ask for trouble. And we get it. | John Perkins | ||
| 376ba36 | The fact is I am getting a little afraid of John. | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ||
| 4545315 | justice is something for which every generation has to strive. | John M. Perkins | ||
| a61dab3 | The first question we must address deals with optimism, the possibility of achieving our goal. Are we in a position where we can actually hope to effect change? Assuming we become convinced that there are reasons for optimism, we move to the next question. Are we cetain that we want change? The stories about EHMs, jackals, and suffering around the globe strike raw nerves, but now we demand absolute proof that our grievances justify the effo.. | suffering optimism | John Perkins | |
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| b1d7295 | In America, education and quality of life are directly related. Lacking a good education means lacking, among other things, access to the very doorway that leads to a wholesome life-style. Education is not a luxury in modern American society--it is essential for survival. | John M. Perkins | ||
| 9b5da5d | sdhkrk bm qlh l~ frd qbyl@ lshwr f~ `m 1990 n l`lm ymkn n ykwn km tHlm bh wnn ymknn n nstbdl bkbws lSn`t lmlwth@ llbyy'@ wlTrq lsry`@ lmGlq@ wlmdn lmfrT@ lzdHm -Hlm jdyd mbny `l~ lmHfZ@ `l~ lbyy'@ wmbdy' lmsy'wly@ ljtm`y@ lm`ny@ blmsw@ f~ stT`ntn n nGyr nfsn wnGyr lmslmt lmTrwH@ | John Perkins | ||
| 3184391 | Whether he sleeps or wakes, whether he runs or walks, whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye, a man never discovers anything, never overtakes anything or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys, if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality. | Henry David Thoreau |