Quotes of: Human-capacity Keyword

-the future is a most marvellous creation. For in it lies all the mystery of raw potentiality-a boundless reservoir of all that could be-formed by the illimitable interactions of conscious human beings with their individual environments, circumstance...

The Shadow Lamp

Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human being Is forced to fight against himself.

My Life's Soul-Journey: Daily Meditations for Ever-Increasing Spiritual Fulfillment

As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life.

It is a basic idea of practically every war mythology that the enemy is a monster and that in killing him one is protecting the only truly valuable order of human life on earth, which is that, of course, of one's own people.

Myths to Live By

Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up d...

Moondust

Money is to an economy as nutrition is to the human body. When central bankers ignore that relationship by providing more capital that functionally needed, they debase everything capitalism stands for.

Memenomics: The Next Generation Economic System

Being illegitimate is a technicality. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with you. Men use "bastard" as a curse. But to use the term thus is to show that they themselves are less than a proper human being.

The Medici Seal

To point out nonepistemic motives in another’s view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person’s connection to the world as it is.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.

Make Love to the Universe: Himalayan Masters Share Spiritual Wisdom

I keep a human brain in my pocket, because you never know when you’ll never know.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.

The Natural History of Religion

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952

He feels the need to hear a human voice—a fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lion—his idea of a hyena his idea of a lion.

Oryx and Crake

Real relief from loneliness requires the cooperation of at least one other person, and yet the more chronic our loneliness becomes, the less equipped we may be to entice such cooperation.

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

The Love Mindset

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefol...

Lessons of the Masters

In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; its business today will be to defend passionately human dignity and reserve.

Letters and Papers from Prison

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

Like the Flowing River

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever ina...

In the Lake of the Woods

No matter what. I wouldn't let anyone change me. I wouldn't let them strip away whatever tiny parts of me were human. Assuming I had any humanity to lose.

MILA 2.0