#so

Human nature presents human minds with a puzzle which they have not yet solved and may never succeed in solving, for all that we can tell. The dichotomy of a human being into 'soul' and 'body' is not a datum of experience. No one has ever been, or ever met, a living human soul without a body... Someone who accepts—as I myself do, taking it on trust—the present-day scientific account of the Universe may find it impossible to believe that a living creature, once dead, can come to life again; but, if he did entertain this belief, he would be thinking more 'scientifically' if he thought in the Christian terms of a psychosomatic resurrection than if he thought in the shamanistic terms of a disembodied spirit. ↗

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#ressurection #souls #experience

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man. ↗

— Brian Herbert

#remembering #life

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our? ↗

— Aysha Taryam

#culture #humanity-and-society #philosophical-musings #philosophy-of-life #life

Surely,' she said, much quieter, more reasonable, 'surely you've been with other women?' His glance at her was dry. 'What do you think?' She looked away at random. 'I think that it appears we have a double standard, here. Men can have sex, women can't. Who, then, do the men have sex with? ↗

— Amanda Carpenter

#life #love #men #society #standard

ماجدوى العقل إذا يارتشارد باركر , ؟ أوظيفته الوحيدة تدبير الأمور العملية فحسب ؟ تأمين الطعام والثياب والمأوى لماذا لا يقدم العقل أجوبة أكبر ؟ ولماذا الأسئلة التي نطرحها تفوق الأجوبة دائماً لماذا الشبكة كبيرة إذا كانت الأسماك قليلة إلى هذا الحد ؟ ↗

— Yann Martel

#mind-power #life

Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one--that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#christianity #life #needs #nourishment #nurturing

[C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better to be polite than honest. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#humor #life-lessons #life

He was a glass half full kind of person and she was...what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#life-philosophy #life

Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#life-lessons #life

‎"Life's book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain at school? ↗

— Charles Hanson Towne

#life