“Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway to consciousness in the form of Homo sapiens or Little Green Men, for example - can be construed as a highway to heaven, but must be viewed as a tortuous track rutted with uncountable obstacles and festooned with innumerable alternative branches. Any reasonably precise repetition of our earthly route on another planet therefore becomes wildly improbable even in a trillion cases.” MenLittlesFormHeavenConsciousnessCasesExamplePossibilityPlanetsGreenEnvironmentalTrackObstaclesAlternativesEvolveRangeBranchesRoutesPreciseRepetitionUnpredictableHighwaysPathwaysHomo SapiensImprobableEnvironmental History Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“God's highest gifts--talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power--they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost.” MayGodFeelingsLostHeavenImaginationHellTalentPossibilityHighestLowest Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series
“Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.” HumansStillsCertainHeavenHuman BeingsSacrificePossibilityRewardsSatisfactionCertaintyContentmentGrantsUnending Author:Cornelia Parker
“Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world.” IfsMenWorldLooksRealUseDreamTodayHeavenPleasureVisionModernPossibilityModelsConceptsStoresHungryBuyingDepartmentComparisonFascinatedNew ThingsConsumptionConsumerismDeep ThoughtOverconsumptionGadgetsModern ManDepartment StoresArticulating Author:Erich Fromm
“Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like the atmosphere against which those wings must beat, and without which the soaring bird will surely plummet back to earth.” MenFactsEarthHeavenPossibilityBeatsBirdWingsAtmosphereClimbsSoar Author:Ivan Pavlov