#humanism

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#humanism #life

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#life

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love #self-knowledge #love

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it ↗

— Maimonides

#disease #humanism #medicine #nurse #medicine

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#human #humanism #resistance #injustice

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#communication #heartwarming #human-connections #human-nature #humanism

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#away #degree #disciplinary #drift #expansion

What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger of the whole mess is that all this Western-American conditioning has been on autopilot for centuries. Nobody is in control of it anymore. It's a mindless goliath wandering the Earth, devouring lives, erasing potential, and following its every whim—regardless of how irrational, obscene, uneducated, enslaving, or backwards its actions are. The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd. ↗

— Zoltan Istvan

#transhumanism #death

I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human. ↗

— Jacob D. Lochner

#inspirational #inspirational

Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows. ↗

— Cassandra Duffy

#humanism #iconoclast #inspirational #inspirational