#uma

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chief concern #chinese #chinese people #concern #confucianism

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#connected #human #human being #loneliness #means

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen. ↗

— Nate Silver

#data #funny #funny things #happen #human

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights. ↗

— Ron Silver

#ethics #gets #human #human rights #laugh

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#cynical #human #human beings

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#could #had #happened #hardly #human

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#behave #certain #changing #clouds #dances

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#age #another #around #deepest #form

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#consciousness #god #hid #human #human nature

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#character #elevation #faith #gain #give