W Quotes
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“When human beings lack a sense of identity, they often do apparently pointless things, simply to give themselves a sense of existence-through-action; this could explain the apparently aimless mischief of the poltergeist.”
Source: Poltergeist!
“When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.”
“When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.”
“When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.”
“When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.”
“When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.”
“When human feelings collide, emotions cultivate their distinctive sensitivities.”
Source: Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected
“When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“When human is full of emotions, robots are full of success”
“When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen”
“When human knowledge could create mass ignorance in the physical plane of existence, those righteous souls who have earned the wisdom either in their evolving and upgrading process of cosmic consciousness or who have dwelled in the truth consciousness, are the last hope for the mankind on earth to eradicate the mass ignorance”.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc
“When human life lay foul for all to see
Upon the earth, crushed by the burden of religion,
Religion which from heaven’s firmament
Displayed its face, its ghastly countenance,
Lowering above mankind, the first who dared
Raise mortal eyes against it, first to take
His stand against it, was a man of Greece.
He was not cowed by fables of the gods
Or thunderbolts or heaven’s threatening roar,
But they the more spurred on his ardent soul
Yearning to be the first to break apart
The bolts of nature’s gates and throw them open.
Therefore his lively intellect prevailed
And forth he marched, advancing onwards far
Beyond the flaming ramparts of the world,
And voyaged in mind throughout infinity,
Whence he victorious back in triumph brings
Report of what can be and what cannot
And in what manner each thing has a power
That’s limited, and deep-set boundary stone.
Wherefore religion in its turn is cast
Beneath the feet of men and trampled down,
And us his victory has made peers of heaven.”
“When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can push (which either screws or nails something) they become Gods in their own heads.They can do anything: they can eat through walls and bring buildings together to form mighty empires.They can build floating cities and flying tin cans.But they still can't make their own beds.”
“When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius”
“When human reason and human warmth become one, self and society are bound to become one.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father and receive all they need. ... For only when you have become utterly dependent upon prayer and faith, only when all human possibilities have been exhausted, can you begin to reckon that God will intervene and work His miracles.”
“When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.”
“When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.”
“When humanity finally emerges from the Middle Ages altogether, when he stops connecting psychic behavior with"the work of the Devil" or with some unknown, unmentionable force, then he will emerge into the New Age of enlightenment.”
“When humanity forgets its harmony with nature, both are left to face the consequences.”
Source: The Undefined World
“When humanity is tested, compassion must lead, for it is only through healing the unseen wounds that we prove our shared humanity.”
“When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.”
“When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.”
Source: The Last Boy
“When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.”
“When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.”
“When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.”
“When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.”
“When humans are not able to fathom the behaviour, actions, and motivations of others, they dismiss them as insane.”
Source: The Gods Are Not Dead
“When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.”
“When humans began cultivating the land, they thought that the extra work this required will pay off. 'Yes, we will have to work harder. But the harvest will be so bountiful! We won't have to worry any more about lean years. Our children will never go to sleep hungry.' It made sense.
If you worked harder, you would have a better life. That was the plan.
The first part of the plan went smoothly. People indeed worked harder. But people did not foresee that the number of children would increase, meaning that the extra wheat would have to be shared between more children.
Neither did the early farmers understand that feeding children with more porridge and less breast milk would weaken their immune system, and that permanent settlements would be hotbeds for infectious diseases.
They did not foresee that by increasing their dependence on a single source of food, they were actually exposing themselves even more to the depredations of drought. Nor did the farmers foresee that in good years their bulging granaries would tempt thieves and enemies, compelling them to start building walls and doing guard duty.”
Source: קיצור תולדות האנושות
“When humans come together with a true spirit of dealing with the mystery collaboratively, it's incredibly beautiful.”
“When humans do what they want, they thrive.”
Source: Your Turn: How to Be an Adult
“when humans don’t understand why something happens, we make it up.
Why does the sun rise in the east and set in the west? That’s the direction of the Greek god Helios’s chariot.
How did zebras get stripes? A zebra got burned walking through a baboon’s fire.
How did the novel coronavirus spread so quickly? 5G towers.”
Source: 99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them
“When humans face testings and tragedy, they should remember the angels who are always standing ready to lend their celestial assistance, comfort and council.”
“When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.”
“When humans invented socioeconomic status, they invented a way to subordinate like nothing hierarchical primates had ever seen before.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“When humans organize into corrupt governments, they become a globally dangerous species.”
“When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.”
Source: Weight of Glory
“When humans technology is quiet, you hear the sound of wind differently”
“When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.”
“When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.”
“When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions
“When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of an object itself, he is very close to the rationalist doctrine. Hume was really a covert objectivist (or partial one) about aesthetic pleasure because that pleasure had to be based on the sensitivity to features in the object.”
“When humility enters our souls, we are at last able to perceive that we do not live alone in the world but with millions of brothers and sisters, and that hidden in the heart of each is the same animating spirit.”
“When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.”
“When Humor Falls Flat
“Humor is not a "one-size fits all" guarantee. What is hilarious to one person may be offensive to another. By being emotionally intelligent and self-aware, you can discern how, when, why, or where to be funny . . . or not. You might be walking on thin ice and risk making a damaging first impression if you use humor that is:
• At the expense of others.
• Thoughtless sarcasm.
• Belittling or condescending.
• Hitting below the belt.
• Creepy or profane.
• Raunchy humor with sexual innuendo.
• Politically incorrect.
• Mean-spirited.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“When humor go's, there go's civilization.”