“If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well, look at how brilliant we are. Look how we can solve problems even dreaming, which I think is true, which I've done myself. So instead of having an externalized model of reality with an objective structure, it has a model of reality that is basically continuously renegotiated in human perception. I think that view of things is pretty pervasively influential in Protestant thought.” IfsThinkingKnowsHumansWellsLooksDoneProblemDreamRealityViewsExamplePerceptionModelsStructureSolveBrilliantObjectivesInfluentialProtestantsGod ImageGodlike Author:Marilynne Robinson
“I do believe that we all are, fundamentally, divided creatures. Emotions split from intellect, spirit from flesh and far too often sexuality is disconnected from what we feel, and are, as total human beings. But how, for example, can anyone have an understanding of the virgin if they don't also have an understanding of the prostitute, the saint and sinner in one body?” IfsFeelsBelieveHumansBodySpiritUnderstandingHuman BeingsEmotionExampleCreaturesSaintIntellectSexualityFleshSinnerDividedSplitsVirginsDisconnectedSaints And Sinners Author:Tori Amos
“An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.” KnowsHumansReasonProblemAbleCultureCoursesNextGenerationsExampleDevelopmentBehaviorEternalSolutionsLocalsAliensNo ReasonTemporarySanitySolitaryBiasNeverthelessBizarreObserversNext GenerationConfigurationHuman Problems Author:Ruth Benedict
“Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.” HumansLooksEndsHuman NatureExampleGlobes Author:Patrick Henry
“Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.” HumansDoeStatesOpportunitySocialExampleDependsIncomeHuman Life Author:Amartya Sen
“History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.” FirstsHumansWarUseCommunityDifferencesResultsExampleEvidenceCapacityRelationFilledInternationalLocalsTragicResolveInternational RelationsSkillfulDiplomaticHuman WisdomLocal CommunityImpasseDiplomatic Relations Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that seem out of control caused by God? Or does He allow them to occur at the hands of human beings? You can spend a lot of time pondering that one and end up pretty much where you started. In either case, the purpose remains the same - our sanctification. God is in the business of making us walking, breathing examples of the invisible reality of the presence of Christ in us.” HumansDoeEndsMatterHandsRealitySeemsPurposeChristHuman BeingsCasesEventsExampleWalkingRemainsInvisibleBreathingTheologianPonderingSanctificationDoes It Matter Author:Elisabeth Elliot
“The advanced organizations of Thinking must teach with their example by cooperating. Every human organization can cooperate in one or another way for the common good. We are a family and we should not miserably torment each other's life because that's absurd.” ThinkingWayShouldHumansCommonTeachExampleOrganizationAbsurdTormentAnother WayCommon GoodCooperating Author:Samael Aun Weor
“If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.” IfsWayHumansHas BeensMightRunningFacesDemocracyExampleDevelopmentWestSocialismOccasionsGermanyMight Have BeenHuman FacesWest Germany Author:Stefan Heym
“...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.” NeedsMindHumansKindMayBodyCertainHumanityThreeSpaceLevelsExamplePersonalityHigherLimitsComputerOrdinaryLongingStriveLiberationGod LoveReplacedConquestTime And SpaceConstraintsTranscendentalParadoxicalJacobHigher PowerHuman Personality Author:E. F. Schumacher
“Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.” PeopleHumansWellsMaySelfHelpingPainDesireDiesOpportunityGrowsRealizingAcceptingLordDyingExampleLike YouConflictCrossesEndureAcceptedHuman LifeTortureEach DayDaily LifeResurrectionAgonySelf CenteredCrucifixionRebuff Author:Mother Teresa
“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayHumansFactsLawBeliefRaceMoralEffectsExampleDutyDevelopmentPeriodsEvidenceAbsolutesFavorsHuman RaceDogmaticMoral LawCannibalismContendingGood Moral Author:Bertrand Russell
“Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace, free from economic determination and from war and class struggle-can be achieved, provided we spend the same energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm on the realization of the human Utopia as we have spent on the realization of our technical Utopias.” HumansHas BeensWarEnergyUnitedClassStruggleEconomicExampleDeterminationFlyingEnthusiasmRealizationHumankindSolidarityUtopiaClass Struggle Author:Erich Fromm
“Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology, as with many of the stories. Anyways, that's just an example of one of the most wicked women in the Nights.” HumansStoriesNightTurnsCan DoPsychologyExampleLessonsWickedTurn-on Author:Marina Warner
“We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program. And we will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously. Iran's recent missile test, for example, was a violation of its international obligations.” HumansStillsSupportRightsExampleProgramTestsInternationalHuman RightsTerrorismObligationIranViolationSanctionsMissilesViolation Of Human Rights Author:Barack Obama
“I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsHumansKindMeanStillsPainTermHuman BeingsLevelsExampleObjectsEmotionalPersonalityWorshipUltimateDollarsSorrySecularPortraitsSoupHammersIconsTurmoilEmotional PainGreat SuccessJackieMaoWarholLizSorry For Him Author:Bob Colacello
“Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought about God was clearly a matter of human thought that can, in principle, be retrieved and interpreted by other human beings. A phenomenological approach to religion must, it seems to me, adopt the old adage: nothing human is alien to me.” HumansDoeMatterSeemsHuman BeingsPrinciplesExampleApproachAliensDocumentsAdagesHuman Thought Author:George Pattison
“What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features of the human conscious model of reality that, first, it can contain elements that are not experienced as mind-independent, as unequivocally real, as immediately given, and second, that there is a "gradient of realness" in which one and the same content can be experienced transparently or in an opaque fashion.” PeopleMindFirstsHumansRealRealityGivenInterestingFashionExampleElementsModelsConsciousIndependentFeaturesMost InterestingPhenomenalOpaqueRealness Author:Thomas Metzinger
“My own show with Sterling Ruby, for example, seems like such a huge disconnection from Dior couture, but then I think, yeah, in both collections there was a very strong focus on the human hand and the actual work of people making garments. So in that sense, they were completely related. But I didn't realize that during the process.” PeopleThinkingHumansShowsHandsSeemsStrongProcessRealizingMy OwnFocusExampleHugeYeahRelatedCollectionsVery StrongGarmentsRubiesCoutureDisconnectionSterlingHuman HandsDior Author:Raf Simons
“There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.” HumansMayFeelingsFallExampleEndureTaoismEnduranceBrushesPitsPathwaysUnstable Author:Zicheng Hong
“It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions.” MindHumansMeanDifferentStoriesMovingTermBrainExampleHuman MindJumpingFlexibleLinearOne DirectionMoving InDifferent Directions Author:Noah Hawley
“For example, you go to Fuji, and there are no animal attacks. Why? And I think that gets you into the world of "The Walking Dead" or "Lost." Humans start doing some weird stuff.” ThinkingWorldHumansLostStuffAnimalExampleWalkingWalking DeadWeird Stuff Author:James Patterson
“I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMindHumansHas BeensImportantBodyRealityRealizingNaturalAttentionIssuesSubjectsExampleAspectDoctorsImportanceStressMedicineMedicalLifestyleAlternativesTherapyWorthwhileInteractionConventionalThreatenedHuman BodyParadigmInsistingMind BodyAlternative MedicineMedical Education Author:Andrew Weil
“Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can see and read the personalities of the human authors with their individual vocabularies and literary genres, and yet this is nevertheless the word of God. How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.” HumansHas BeensIndividualHuman BeingsResultsExamplePersonalityIslamGenreContributionWord Of GodContrastNeverthelessDocumentsVocabularyLiterary Genre Author:D. A. Carson
“At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.” WantMindHumansPerfectLevelsBrainExampleBecomingHuman Mind Author:Deepak Chopra