#human

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#contrariness #ebooks #humanity #internet #reading

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dignity #faith #haiku #heaven #human-mortality

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. ↗

— Voltaire

#human #human spirit #ignorance #infantile #knowledge

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#humanity #library #future

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#human race #knock #never #out #patriotism

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve. ↗

— Stefan Collini

#education-system #humanities #education

Live your epitaph ↗

— Zoe Weil

#education #epitaph #humane #introspective #live

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#environment #forests #humanity #trees #wilderness

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#humanity #travel #africa

Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#enlightment #humanity #understanding #enlightenment