#log

It takes centuries for sense to become common ↗

— Anthony Steyning

#inspirational #sociology #inspirational

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history ↗

— Herman Ebbinghaus

#psychology #inspirational

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#religion

A therapist who rushes to help forgets to listen. ↗

— Noam Shpancer

#psychology #inspirational

The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself to no end. ↗

— Noam Shpancer

#life #psychology #inspirational

For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do... [Lucifer] ↗

— Glen Duncan

#satire #theology #freedom

...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum... ↗

— John Geddes

#eulogy #maudlin #muse #slum #streets

[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations furnishing us with the earliest known nucleus of fact regarding the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human body. Crude and elementary as they are, the method by which they were collected was scientific, and these observations, together with the diagnoses and the explanatory commentary in the ancient glosses, form the oldest body of science now extant. ↗

— James Henry Breasted

#ancient-egypt #ancient-medicine #biology #hieroglyphic #medical-history

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being? ↗

— Carl Sagan

#earth #science #space-exploration #science

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#creation-myths #mythology #science #science