Nine men in ten are suicides.
Benjamin FranklinTags: humans
You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?"
"It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize."
"Must be a human thing."
"Exactly.
Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.
Dag HammarskjöldTags: humans get-moving
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag HammarskjöldA heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen of alert senses, that has wasted itself on 'treasons, stratagems and spoils'--of importance only within four walls. A tame animal--in whom the strength of the species has outspent itself, to no purpose.
Dag HammarskjöldTags: nature civilization humans
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
Dag HammarskjöldWe carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Thomas BrowneMy home drove me
into the wilderness.
Few look for me. Few hear me.
His moral lecture
blazed with hate.
What could have driven a child that far?
Apes. The moon woke them--
round the world's navel revolved
prayer wheels of steps.
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