We have lost our humanity to the decimal point.
Bryant McGillTags: humanity humanity-and-society
If you put it as 'complex nervous systems' it sounds pretty deflationary. What's so special about a complex nervous system? But of course, that complex nervous system allows you to do calculus. It allows you to do astrophysics… to write poetry... to fall in love. Put under that description, when asked 'What’s so special about humans...?', I’m at a loss to know how to answer that question. If you don’t see why we’d be special… because we can do poetry [and] think philosophical thoughts [and] we can think about the morality of our behavior, I’m not sure what kind of answer could possibly satisfy you at that point.
...I could pose the same kinds of questions of you... So God says, 'You are guys are really, really special.' How does his saying it make us special? 'But you see, he gave us a soul.' How does our having a soul make us special? Whatever answer you give, you could always say… 'What’s so special about that?
Tags: poetry purpose humanity meaning humans debate special calculus complex-nervous-systems
Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.
Bryant McGillTags: progress humanity respect
To grieve is to know you've loved. To love is to know you're human.
D.C. AkersHumanity is about living in the gray area between corruptibility and incorruptibility.
D.C. AkersTags: humanity corruptibility
No hizo falta mucho para reducir el castillo de naipes de la civilización. Solo unas pocas ráfagas y pasó, la balanza se inclinó, se rompió el encanto. Los buenos ciudadanos se dieron cuenta de que las líneas que habían dado forma a sus vidas eran imaginarias y se cruzaban con facilidad. Tenían deseos y necesidades y el poder para satisfacerlas, así que lo hicieron. En el momento en que se apagaron las luces, todo el mundo dejó de fingir.
Isaac MarionTags: humanity death civilization
Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.
Bryant McGillTags: humanity leadership desire needs
Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.
Bryant McGillTags: humanity nationalism objectivity
MAN, n.
An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
Tags: humor humanity humour mankind humans
When my trust was suspended from the fragile thread of justice
and in the whole city
they were chopping up my heart's lanterns
when they would blindfold me
with the dark handkerchief of Law
and from my anxious temples of desire
fountains of blood would squirt out
when my life had become nothing
nothing
but the tic-tac of a clock,
I discovered
I must
must
must love,
insanely.
Tags: love humanity death violence
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