Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert EinsteinTags: humor science attributed-no-source philosophy stupidity human-nature infinity universe
He's got a can up there,' Richard said.
John SteinbeckTags: human-nature reflection wonderful
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert CamusTags: man philosophy human-nature mankind
Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means "to draw out." What needs to be drawn out is our affinity for life. That affinity needs opportunities to grow and flourish, it needs to be validated, it needs to be instructed and disciplined, and it needs to be harnessed to the goal of building humane and sustainable societies. Education that builds on our affinity for life would lead to a kind of awakening of possibilities and potentials that lie dormant and unused in the industrial-utilitarian mind. Therefore the task of education, as Dave Forman stated, is to help us 'open our souls to love this glorious, luxuriant, animated, planet.' The good news is that our own nature will help us in the process if we let it.
David OrrTags: education beauty nature environment human-nature
You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: reason human-nature underground
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Ernest HemingwayTags: human-nature a-moveable-feast
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G.K. ChestertonTags: human-nature ignorance boredom
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
George EliotTags: human-nature funny
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
John SteinbeckTags: human-nature country-life
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne FrankTags: hope human-nature
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