“The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings.” MenMindHumansHas BeensMadeAgeUniverseNextLeftHuman BeingsKnowingMembersAchievementFellowsBlessedHumbleBrilliantPeace Of MindCompellingPreciseOutlookGrandeurDeficiencyVeneration Author:Alain de Botton
“All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.” WantHumansLife IsHuman BeingsCompelling Author:Lynn Shelton
“How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become mere human beings, shorn of any more compelling national, ethnic, or religious identity? We can be reasonable. It is in the very nature of reason to fuse cognitive and moral horizons. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.” LoveHumansReasonReligiousHuman BeingsMoralIdentityMereReasonableHorizonCompellingGuardianCognitiveFuseReligious Identity Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason