The friend is a human Eden But Eden is so easily lost When you choose, choose wisely Before you share, count the cost
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
The importance of awakening to our evolutionary origins is paramount because irrational ideas about “who we are” fuel our sense of separateness
Let me make this radiantly clear—if you believe in spirits and the metaphysical world, your biology will create the illusion that these things are real.
The funny thing about the word “delusion” is that it means just that—delusion. When you have it, you don't know it, and that can be a problem.
Nothing in this world, is completely new. That's why we study history and compare today, with the past. In the end, every human being, has the same way of thinking.
But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.
If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.
Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings.
We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.
The great thing about life-the most magnificent thing about being these sentient human beings-is that we have been given the power of choice.
Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.
You are no longer a weak, susceptible human. You are Shaede, deadly and cunning. Never bow to that mortal weakness again.
and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended
Sorry, no. I refuse to join an army which practices human sacrifice and has no adequate pension plan.
It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man's very nature.
Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity.
What is with these guys? Where's the thrill in watching snakes eat? I certainly didn't thrill in watching humans eat.
Humans don’t make sense.” “If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.
The notion of there being something greater than humanity can strike fear in the bravest of soldiers and cradle courage in the palm of a child’s hand.
