Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human rights. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?
The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to...
Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, night, the negative pole, must share equal importance wit...
So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we don't nip it in the bud, it will escalate and we wil...
Humans have evolved levels of cooperation that are unprecedented among primate species. You can see it even in babies. Say you are playing with a baby and begin to put the toys in a box. If you point to one of the toys, the baby is likely to put it i...
Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that th...
Simple answers to the most difficult questions: 1. Why do humans find it difficult to express themselves? To relate to the movies and books, later. 2. Why do humans make everything look so big, beautiful & complicated? Ego feels good. 3. Why do human...
If you want to go up in the world, veil ambition with the forms of humanity.
This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity.
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
Your bone shall remain Your flesh shall remain Your spirit shall remain
But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible!
The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.
If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?
Challenges in the rear view appear smaller than they are.. But keep your spirits higher than the Challenges are.
They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits
You must have a strong will and determined spirit to fight any form of oppression.
