A Quotes
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“As humanism freed us from the chains of superstition, let transhumanism free us from our biological chains.”
Source: Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto
“As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.”
“As humanity evolves, we must embrace the potential of technology to foster empathy, compassion, and ethical decision-making, rather than view it as a threat. By using technology in a responsible and human-centered way, we can create a better future for all.”
“As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.”
“As humanity progressed it built machines that can do away with its hands and now, it is building programs that eventually aim to do away with its brains, the one thing that no other species on this planet can challenge.”
“As humanity progresses its technology on a global level, the observed degradation of natural processes and growth cycles are the alarm systems that nature uses to alert us that some of this progress is biologically toxic.”
“As humans, all our power elements lies in our ability to switch the power of hate inside us onto an energy of love.”
“As humans begin to awaken to an animate and sentient universe, our attitude toward reality will change accordingly, and so will our systems.”
Source: Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature
“As humans dominate the world, then logically someone dominates the entire universe and that ‘someone’ is God!”
“As humans in mourning, we often find comfort and encouragement in symbolism. Small, everyday things or occurrences we encounter may remind us of all the good times and experiences we've had with deceased loved ones.”
“As humans, it is easy to feel limited. But things will shift for you once you realize we are powerful beyond measure. We were meant to use the tools given to us, to surpass those misperceived beliefs of ourselves in extraordinary ways.”
“As humans, it’s our birthright to live and learn. Experience is the best teacher, but that’s especially true when we can learn from someone else’s experience.”
Source: Healthy Thinking Habits: Seven Attitude Skills Simplified
“As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.”
“As humans, we acknowledge how much we need our rest, but this is not the case for God. He does not need to recover from a long day. He does not need to refresh His body at night. He does not need to relax His mind. He certainly does not need prophets to awaken Him at certain times of the day. He is the everlasting God; He will never grow tired or weary.”
Source: A Theology of Sleep: Trusting in the Lord When You Are Most Vulnerable
“As humans, we all have subjective, ingrained beliefs that inform our decision-making, even if we aren’t aware of them. The problem is that the one-sided media we consume can end up confirming our perspectives rather than challenging them.”
Source: Beyond Diversity
“As humans, we are all insecure to a certain degree, and we don't want to risk looking stupid, being rejected, or feeling awkward.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.”
Source: Evening Thoughts
“As humans we are limited because we don’t know everything but we can learn. Through education and life experiences we come into knowledge that we previously lacked. Failure teaches us what we did not know and how to improve in areas where we are deficient.”
“As humans, we compare to the extent that our minds allow us to. The more exposure we have, the wider the variety, and the better is the outcome or decision.”
“As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as they can understand') there are lies-to-bosses ('as much as they need to know') lies-to-patients ('they won't worry about what they don't know') and, for all sorts of reasons, lies-to-ourselves. Lies-to-children is simply a prevalent and necessary kind of lie. Universities are very familiar with bright, qualified school-leavers who arrive and then go into shock on finding that biology or physics isn't quite what they've been taught so far. 'Yes, but you needed to understand that,' they are told, 'so that now we can tell you why it isn't exactly true.' Discworld teachers know this, and use it to demonstrate why universities are truly storehouses of knowledge: students arrive from school confident that they know very nearly everything, and they leave years later certain that they know practically nothing. Where did the knowledge go in the meantime? Into the university, of course, where it is carefully dried and stored.”
Source: The Science of Discworld
“As humans, we have so much to learn all the time. Hav-
ing compassion is, by far, our greatest teacher.”
Source: Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
“As humans, we have the ability to take higher risks. However, refusing to stop learning and adapting is not a risk; it’s a blunder. The costs of this blunder could be as high as our extinction.”
Source: Quantraz
“As humans, we innately search for meaning in life, constantly seeking answers from outside ourselves. But true meaning comes from inside us - specifically, in the form of dreams.”
Source: Horse Magick: Spells and Rituals for Self-Empowerment, Protection, and Prosperity
“As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.”
“As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.”
“As humans, we mostly thrive on variety and change, but some people find comfort and stability in what is familar and routine.”
“As humans, we must make a separate peace with each of these realities - with our membership in a global community and with our solitary existence. What exists between the two is not so much a boundary as it is a wormhole connecting two different yet parallel universes. Issues in one universe show up in corresponding forms in the other. And we must discover for ourselves what right living, for us, looks like in each.”
Source: Reframing Poverty: New Thinking and Feeling About Humanity's Greatest Challenge
“As humans, we roam the entire world. We even venture beyond it not space. The whole planet is ours, but the whole planet is not our home. Instead, home is the ground we measure with our own two feet. And home is the place that measures us. Home is the place that names us and the place we, in turn, name. It feeds us, body and soul, and if we are living well, we feed it too.
Home is the place we cultivate with our love.”
Source: Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons
“As humans, we seek ways to fill gaps in our lives through love, food, pleasure, challenges, and more.”
“As humans, we share more grandparents than we do not.”
“As humans we speak one language.”
“As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each of us have within our heads that are so different from each other it is mind boggling.”
“As humans, we are rarely anything more than children that have let the changes to the size and shape of our genitals convince us that there are more important things in life than wonder and happiness. we call the acceptence of this change 'growing up' and it makes us feel big and powerful in a world that would be no less mysterious to us than it was before if all of the fantasizing that we once used to explore the "unknown" quality of our reality had not become devoted almost exclusively to the notion that we are in control.”
“As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just that plant, plus indirectly whatever nutrients that plant consumed over its lifetime (and we are also harming whatever beings may have been living on that plant or who were injured or killed in the harvesting process). But when we eat an animal, we are eating not just that animal, but also indirectly all of the plants and other beings that that animal ate over its lifetime - those plants became the flesh that we eat.”
“As humans, we get filled with jealousy, at times, and rage, and I am no exception. I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.”
“As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.”
“As humans, we need to question all these notions. What does freedom mean for us? What are our responsibilities? It takes one-250th of a second to take a photograph. So I have the whole of the rest of that second - and of that day - to think.”
“As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.”
Source: The Hippopotamus
“As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.”
“As husband and wife
We’ll never doubt our love,
Let us enjoy our fill tonight
And cherish our conjugal felicity,
In this blissful moment
Holding your hand,
I let out a long sigh
My tears—
Enjoy the prime of your life,
Do not forget our time in glee
Safe and sound, I’ll come back to you.
Though dead, my love won’t die with me.”
“As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.”
“As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.”
“As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.”
“As I accept the flowers, I release my grip on the balloons, and they bounce gently against the ceiling the way they did before—hovering, annoyed, frustrated, contained by the ceiling and disappointed by the limits of life.”
Source: See What Flowers
“As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to my last thought - that God is love - they asked, "Even here? Even here?”
Source: Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics & Other Spiritual Technologies
“As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so I also accept my silver hair-and I am ready to accept the time when my hair and the rest of my clay garment returns to the dust from which it came, while my spirit goes on to freer living. It is the season for my hair to be silver, and each season has its lessons to teach. Each season of life is wonderful if you have learned the lessons of the season before. It is only when you go on with lessons unlearned that you wish for a return.”
“As I acknowledge the boundaries within myself, I am given plenty of opportunities to reinforce them.”
Source: An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
“As I actualize, I uncover.”
Source: I and Thou
“As I age half dead, without grace, The triumph of the pills and the bills, Shadow, my shadow, my widow, Breathe in, breathe in and breathe out, The signature of stigma as I vaporize in the sun, Into the clouds, my grave, and then rebirth,”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism