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“By the time I left high altitude astronomy I had formed the opinion that the human resources department was the shadiest.”

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“After a decade in high altitude astronomy, I had come to the conclusion that the primary purpose of the human resources department was to facilitate the company objectives at the expense of the employees.”

Human Resources Astronomy Objectives Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope

Author:Steven Magee

“يجب أن يكون الإنسان وفياً حتى للصخر ليكون جديراً بالحياة”

Life Human Loyalty

Book:مذكرات جندي مصري في جبهة قناة السويس

Source: مذكرات جندي مصري في جبهة قناة السويس

“Like it or not, we humans are bound up with our fellows, and with the other plants and animals all over the world. Our lives are intertwined.”

Civilization Human Animals Dystopian Plants

Book:Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

“I've never known what to do," said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. "Been completely at a loss my whole life." He hesitated. "I think it's called being human, or something.”

Life Humanity Human Rincewind

Book:Sourcery

Source: Sourcery

“Our purportedly advanced civilization may be changing the delicate ecological balance that has tortuously evolved over the 4-billion-year period of life on Earth.”

Human Dystopian Extinction

Book:Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

“Но человек существо легкомысленное и неблаговидное и, может быть, подобно шахматному игроку, любит только один процесс достижения цели, а не самую цель.”

Life Inspirational Human Goals Chess

Book:Notes from Underground

Source: Notes from Underground

“Spiritual practices in any tradition, including mindfulness in its many forms, are meant to help you live what is yours to live, not make you rise above it. These tools are meant to help you feel companioned inside your grief. They're meant to give you a tiny bit of breathing room inside what is wholly unbearable. That's not at all the same thing as making your pain go away.”

Humanity Spirituality Grief Healing Mindfulness Human Connection Grief And Loss Connectedness

Book:It's OK That You're Not OK

Source: It's OK That You're Not OK

“As the feeling of an internal power of self-determination elevates the man above the unlimited dominion of impulse and the instincts of nature; in a word, absolves him from nature's guardianship, so the necessity, which alongside of her he must recognize, is no mere natural necessity, but one lying beyond the world of sense in the abyss of infinitude; consequently it exhibits itself as the unfathomable power of Destiny. Hence this power extends also to the world of gods: for the Grecian gods are mere powers of nature; and although immeasurably higher than mortal man, yet, compared with infinitude, they are on an equal footing with himself.”

Destiny Human Gods

Book:Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

Source: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

“But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of—that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”

Book:Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“If any authority should be able to justify itself, if any authority should be able to answer the question "by what right?" with something more than the circular assertion of its own power, it is the authority that claims to be perfectly rational, perfectly just, and the source of all goodness. And yet, it is precisely this authority that most often answers the question 'Why?' with 'Because I AM.”

Philosophy God Politics Theology Political Philosophy Philosophy Of Religion Omittoism Political Theology Divine Authority

Author:Shamsaddin Amanov