“Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.” PeopleFeelsFeelingsUniverseNextHoursActingHalfSticksScalesTraditionalInsaneExistentialEpicHalf HoursBlown AwayMeltdowns Author:Enrico Fermi
“Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.” MenGivingMayStillsFactsFeelingsDestinyPrideEvolutionHigherScalesSummitRisenExertionOrigin Of Man Book:The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality Source: The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality
“Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.” IfsShouldMindMayFeelingsWould BeCreaturesIntellectualLowsScalesConceptionThinkerHello Book:The Principles of Psychology Source: The Principles of Psychology
“I was in Manhattan during 9/11, and that was really the only thing that I related to as far as a disaster on a grand scale. It was really interesting to see on that day and in the weeks afterwards how people came together, and what people were able to do for each other, and what I found myself feeling and thinking and doing for the people around me, whether it was strangers on the street or my own family. It was really an experience that you can't fake.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsAbleTogetherFoundMy OwnInterestingWeekStreetsStrangerDisasterScalesFakeRelatedReally InterestingManhattan Author:Alexandra Daddario