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“It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.”

Humans Emotion Impossible Mystery Limitation Overwhelming Human Intelligence Knowledge And Power Mystery Of Nature Overwhelming Emotions

Book:The Concept of Nature

Source: The Concept of Nature

“Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.”

World Should Humans Behinds Impossible Proud Storm Finished Abstract Ashamed Be Proud Blueprints Vaults

Author:Tomas Transtromer

“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.”

“A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.”

Thinking Humans Energy Impossible Possibility Saint

Book:Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.”

Ifs Humans Wells Doe Ends Action Actors Impossible Response Stimulus Human Actions

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.”

Humans Passion Individual Imagination Creative Rights Impossible Independent Human Rights Tyranny Pretence Individual Freedom

Author:Ai Weiwei

“It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.”

Mind Humans Impossible Evidence Miracle Human Mind

Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

“As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.”

Humans Form Found Difficult Christ Impossible Heat Deities Footsteps Olives Ascent Human Form

Book:The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain

Source: The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain

“To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.”

Humans Enough Asks Easy Friendship Love Is Impossible Materials Sight Endure Absurd Ask Me Human Love Without Friends

Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?' The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding.”

Want Should Humans Humanity Asks Jesus Human Beings Impossible Want U Implications Impossible Things

Author:Peter J. Gomes

“It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.”

Mind Humans Problem Impossible Approach Bias Human Problems Mind Free

Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.”

Humans Belief Answers Existence Impossible Despair Eternity Tragedy Meaningful Life And Death Human Existence

Author:Peter Drucker

“The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is--not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both.”

“The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.”