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“I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.”

Way Believe Humans Self Happens I Believe Born Human Beings Results Environment Unique Core Unpredictable Heredity

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction. In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.”

“Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.”

Humans Said Facts Human Beings Answers Results Comedy Sadness Remarriage

Book:Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage

Source: Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage

“When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.”

“Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.”

Thinking Way Years Humans Two Three Individual Social Human Beings Results Thousand Impulse Native Thrive Thousand Years Venture Evident

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.”

Humans Philosophy Individual Human Beings Results Existence Achieve Objects Slavery Recognition Consideration Abolition Affirming Philosophic Abolition Of Slavery

Author:Gilbert Simondon

“The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”

Source: The Lost World

“I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.”

“I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.”

“The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.”

Source: Gravity and Grace

“The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.”

Humans Art Ideas Self Sometimes Human Beings Results Creativity Personality Discipline Mess Impulse Attractive Glorious Nonsense Dedication Primitive Self Discipline Notable Unruly

Author:Margaret Halsey

“To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.”

Humans Natural Human Beings Results Environment Fate Society Directors Mechanism Sole Natural Environment Demolition

Author:Karl Polanyi

“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.”

World Humans Art Literature Belief Energy Human Beings Results Numbers Fantasy Direct Disappointment Inadequate Mishaps

Author:Christopher Hampton

“The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.”

Humans Process Human Beings Results Circumstances Psychological Surround Diverse Interiors Exterior

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“The usual method of creation for most human beings is a three-step process involving thought, word, and deed or action. First comes thought; the formative idea; the initial concept. Then comes the word. Most thoughts ultimately form themselves into words, which are often then written or spoken. This gives added energy to the thought, pushing it out into the world, where it can be noticed by others. Finally, in some cases words are put into action, and you have what you call a result; a physical world manifestation of what all started with a thought.”

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.”

Humans Art Self Spirit Human Beings Results Creation Particular Destruction Divided Restraint Self Destruction Self Restraint

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.”

Knows Humans Human Beings Results

Author:Herbert Simon

“One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.”