#hum

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives. ↗

— Sam Harris

#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature. ↗

— Criss Jami

#atheism #bible #bitterness #denial #epithet

„Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund ↗

— Marlen Haushofer - Die Wand

#thinking-with-a-great-mind #nature

Man is the only creature in the process of evolution, that plays no role in maintaining the integrity of the earths pocessions, his only purpose was in fullfilling the needs of his own kind. ↗

— Moses Pereira

#nature

Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial." From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths ↗

— Kirk D. Sinclair

#human-nature #nature

Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why? ↗

— Robert Wright

#self #subconscious #nature

Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#nature

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries. ↗

— David Benedictus

#nature

Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#science #nature

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#glory #humanity #loyalty #nations #nature