“As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.” HumansValuesHuman BeingsExistenceScalesSensibleAgony Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.” ShouldHumansEndsDiesHuman BeingsCivilizationCreaturesAgonyAbhorrent Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)
“Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.” MenWorldMindHumansAgeHuman BeingsFantasyStudyMiddleDyingHe ManGeniusCapableEssenceTragedyTwentiesSalvationIntellectTheologyEmploymentLogicalAbandonedAgonyPlagueMiddle AgesTransformingStarvationMillenniumGreat MindsDeductionsLeprosyTransforming The World Author:Andrew Bernstein