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“Do not trust their words. Challenge them to a staring contest, at the sun. That is the true measure of a man. The willingness to ruin oneself to prove.”

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“A human being is a spatially and temporally limited piece of the whole of what we call the "universe". He experiences himself and his feelings as separated from the rest, an optical illusion of his consciousness. The quest for liberation from this bondage [or delusion] is the sole object of real religion. Not nurturing the illusion but only overcoming it gives us the attainable measure of inner peace.”

Science Purpose Religion Universe Consciousness Kindness Human Cosmos Delusion Einstein

Author:Albert Einstein

“Ninguna cosa es más propia a Dios que el amor, ni al amor hay cosa más natural que volver al que ama en las condiciones e ingenio del que es amado.”

Love God Religion

Author:Fray Luis de León

“The possibility that empathy is part of our primate heritage ought to makes us happy, but we're not in the habit of embracing our nature. When people commit genocide, we call them "animals". But when they give to the poor, we praise them for being "humane". We like to claim the latter behavior for ourselves.”

Evolution Empathy Human Animals Homo Sapiens Primate

Book:Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

Source: Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

“You ain't scared... you ain't human”

Inspirational Human Bravery Maze Runner

Book:The Maze Runner Series

Source: The Maze Runner Series

“People are better than computers when finding patterns in images, but computers are better than people when finding patterns in numbers.”

Science Computer Human Mathematics Ai Artificial Intelligence Cognition Number Pattern

Book:The Grammar of Graphics. Statistics and Computing.

Source: The Grammar of Graphics. Statistics and Computing.

“As I glanced up I had looked straight towards the last house in the row before me, and in an upper window of that house I had seen for some short fraction of a second a face. It was the face of a woman, and yet it was not human.”

Human Face Not Human The Inmost Light

Book:The White People and Other Weird Stories

Source: The White People and Other Weird Stories

“The presence of gods has been enormously comforting as we have continued to dutifully cross the stage of life, going about or daily tasks, yet knowing that Pale Death was waiting in the wings.”

Life Mind Death Brain Evolution Human Memento Mori Symbol

Book:Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion

Source: Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion

“To have been accompanied on life's journey by the symbolic and monumental props of the gods has been a continuing and reassuring source of solitude. Such props quiet the inner voices that whisper about the inevitable end of life's drama.”

Life Mind Death Brain Evolution Human Memento Mori Symbol

Book:Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion

Source: Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion

“COVID-19 is the most feared of the human predators.”

Human Pandemic Predator Covid19 Virus Most Mutant Predators Feared

Book:Magee’s Disease

Source: Magee’s Disease

“i gave myself permission to freak out. smiled like an idiot, made an embarrassing screeching sound through my teeth, flapped my hands like tiny little chicken wings, the works. mr. britton responded by doing pretty much the exact same thing. we were only human, you know.”

Human Realistic Fiction

Author:Preston Norton

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