“In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being” YearsFirstsHumansWisdomEarthFeltHuman BeingsCitiesHolyFirst TimeCreatorIslamic Author:Malcolm X
“Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.” WayHumansUniverseFoundUnderstandingHuman BeingsWorshipSpeciesPhilosopherCreatorMiserableAttributesArchitectViciousTheologianBenevolentIllogicalUnbalanced Author:Anatole France
“Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator.” WorldHumansPersonsIndividualHuman BeingsConceptsCreatorAssumptionBankingSpectatorsImplicitDichotomyPedagogyPedagogy Of The Oppressed Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth's location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings nor their capacity to gain knowledge about the universe reflects masterful engineering at a level far beyond human capability- and even imagination. It testifies of a supernatural, superintelligent, superpowerful, fully deliberate Creator.” NeedsHumansEarthUniverseImaginationDarkHuman BeingsLevelsDarknessSacrificeMaterialsGainsCapacityCreatorCosmicCapabilityEngineeringLocationDeliberateOptimization Author:Hugh Jackman
“You are a child of the universe, "fearfully and wonderfully made." In the history of creation, there has never been anyone like you. Accept this reality about yourself- that you are a special, unique human being who has a place on this earth that no one else can fill. Acknowledge yourself as a glorious expression of your loving Creator. This healthy self-love will form the foundation of a joyful and satisfying life. Then, as you love and accept yourself, your inner light will shine outward to bless and heal your fellow human beings.” HumansChildrenMadeSelfRealityLightEarthFormUniverseHuman BeingsAcceptingSpecialCreationExpressionLike YouSelf LoveHealthyUniqueFellowsFoundationShiningCreatorHealAcknowledgeGloriousBlessAbout YourselfSatisfyingJoyfulAccepting YourselfInner Light Author:Douglas Bloch
“Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life from devolving into nothing but a long and essentially boring game of attempted dominance over our fellow human beings, and for every limitation conscience imposes on us, it gives us a moment of connectedness with an other, a bridge to someone or something outside of our often meaningless schemes.” GivingHumansLongMomentsGamesHuman BeingsEmotionalConscienceFellowsCreatorBoringLimitationBridgesTiesMeaninglessRootedSchemesConstraintsDominanceConnectedness Author:Martha Stout
“Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.” HumansWould BeHuman BeingsCompanyRolesEconomyCreativeCapacityConcernedDignityCreatorProductivityCirclesMetamorphosisMarket EconomyFull Circle Author:Joseph Beuys
“The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.” MenHumansHuman BeingsEvolutionComputerIdealsEssenceCreatorLiberatedCompletionArchetype Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt
“We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!” WorldWantGivingHumansLongHas BeensEndsAbleLawOrderTurnsHuman BeingsHonestyIgnoranceUniqueIdealsCreatorPhysicsPhysicistLearnersIncomparableValuation Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.” HumansStillsSoulHandsFormMotherUniverseFatherStuffParentHuman BeingsWonderCreatorCeaseTimingMasterpieceGeneticsMother And FatherFlawless Author:William P. Young
“One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - the relations between the creature and his Creator.” MenHumansMayDiesHuman BeingsKingsPureBedCreaturesRelationIndividualityCreatorIntenseContemplationSolemnConquerorMagistrates Book:THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II Source: THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II
“It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingHumansReasonHelpingProblemSufferingUniverseHuman BeingsMoralityConcernRewardsCreatorAvailableNobleHelping OthersLinkages Author:Sam Harris
“Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to overcome it and pass beyond it. Not the wretchedest human being but has his share in the creative energy that builds the world. We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials.” MenWorldHumansCertainEnergyHuman BeingsCreativeShareMaterialsOvercomingCreatorMythologyMaterial WorldSecretiveCreative Energy Author:John Cowper Powys