I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.
Kage BakerTag: history science-fiction genre sf past-and-future human-experience past-and-present
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.
Connie WillisTag: human-experience church-choir
But I could tell thee of other things, Inglés, and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man.
Ernest HemingwayTag: faith spirituality human-experience gypsy
In the world “out there,” there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving around in certain recurrent and yet not fully predictable patterns. We interpret such experiences as and through symbolic means, including linguistic expressions. That’s what it means to be human.
Duranti a AlessandroTag: linguistics human-experience linguistic-anthropology
As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you.
James Van PraaghTag: life consciousness truth world living choices ghosts exist human-experience happen other-side uncovering
How wrong and petty any life is.
David WojahnTag: human-nature human-experience
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTag: wisdom knowledge self-esteem confidence heart understanding encouragement positivity human-experience
Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.
W. Norris ClarkeTag: philosophy human-experience
Where's your church?"
"We're standing in it."
"But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday."
"Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space.
Tag: wisdom books knowledge humanity spiritual religion faith hope book spirituality religious book-lover bookstore sacred human-spirit human-experience sacredness sacred-texts sacred-space sacred-wisdom unitarian-universalism unitarian-universalist uu
No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.
Zeena SchreckTag: buddhism environmentalism human-nature human-experience destruction-of-nature
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