“The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.” TryingMindHumansSelfHuman BeingsDangerInstinctBottomDeceptionSelf DeceptionDeclaring Author:Stefan Zweig
“When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.” HumansHuman BeingsDanger Author:Immaculee Ilibagiza
“No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the pathway a little clearer for the generations to come after, and put legible signboards at the points where the greatest dangers have threatened us, in the hope that our posterity will read, understand, and be warned.” HumansLittlesCan DoHuman BeingsGenerationsDangerMarkThreatenedPosterityPathways Author:Joseph Alexander Leighton
“All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.” WayHumansStatesPastNationsInterestHuman BeingsHistoryDangerHealthyNormalGloryConstitutionObsessionPreoccupationMorbidOvershadowing Author:C. V. Wedgwood
“We will never know everything. But I think if we can learn within the next few decades to face the danger we all are in, I believe there will be tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of human beings working wherever they are to do something good.” IfsThinkingKnowsBelieveHumansFacesNextI BelieveHuman BeingsMillionsDangerDecades Author:Pete Seeger
“I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.” PeopleKnowsWorldHumansRealityHuman BeingsForgetEventsDangerEvidenceVersionsConstructs Author:Dale Spender
“One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.” PeopleHumansMadeStillsEndsPhilosophyMightAgeTodayHuman BeingsViewsMiddleDangerTrainingPhilosophicalTrainUniversityTendenciesEducatedCharacteristicsProfessorsMiddle AgesAntiquitySpecialistsScholasticism Author:Pierre Hadot
“One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.” KnowsHumansPersonsMomentsCharacterForceHuman BeingsAbilityStrengthHuman NatureDangerBehaviorDecisive MomentsHidden Strength Author:Stefan Zweig
“Dogs are intelligent beings; they are not human beings. The life of a dog - there's no equivalency with the life of a person, and if you are putting a dog in the line of danger to save human life, and they can do the job reasonably well, I mean, seriously, what about dignity and self-respect? I feel like going out to dinner, I think I will have my cocker spaniel host the show tonight.” IfsThinkingFeelsHumansWellsMeanPersonsSelfShowsJobsCan DoLinesHuman BeingsDogDangerDignityIntelligentDinnerHuman LifeSelf RespectTonightHostGoing OutSpanielsSelf Respect And Dignity Author:Tucker Carlson