#human

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others. ↗

— Iain Banks

#nature

ان الحب العاطفى بين الرجل والمراة شكل من اشكال الحب لكنه شكل متعدد الالوان كقوس قزح.. اما بحر الحب الانسانى نفسه فلا حدود له.. ولا حد لاشكاله وانواعه وصوره ↗

— عبد الوهاب مطاوع

#love #love

John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or materialist, or biologist or linguist, or for that matter socialist, because one or more of these, or something else again, is what we do and think and are. We have 'purely and simply finished with God', to adapt a phrase of Engels's. ↗

— David Craig

#atheists #biologists #friedrich-engels #god #humanists

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#monsters #monsters

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#society #nature

Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its essence ↗

— AainaA-Ridtz

#humanity #humility #perfection #nobility

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#love #love

Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#rules

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#carl-sagan #cosmos #fearless #humanity #humility

She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#rivers #time #imagination