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“The entire structure of the human mind blocks out most of infinity. To a certain extent it's necessary because otherwise one would be insane, unless you have a very developed mind to deal with the endless permutations of infinity simultaneously.”

Mind Humans Would Be Certain Deals Awareness Buddhism Structure Endless Block Insane Human Mind Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.”

Humans Rights Economic Huge Structure Human Rights Terrorism Inequality Unfair Repression Assassination Economic Inequality Human Rights Day

Author:Pope Francis

“I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs”

Source: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS

“I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.”

Humans Light Form Imagine Color Expression Concern Structure Chaos Envy Painter Torment Restful

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.”

Way Humans Left Growth Known Capable Structure Vulnerable Vulnerability Passages Exposed Shed Protective Stretching

Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking.”

Thinking Humans Feelings Energy Structure

Book:The sexual revolution: toward a self-governing character structure

Source: The sexual revolution: toward a self-governing character structure

“I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.”

Thinking World Years Humans Stills Shows Understanding Numbers Laughing Cry Praying Structure Paint Preserves Curse Detest

Author:Janice Tanton

“The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.”

Humans Mean War Bigs Today Peace Process Race Technology Fit Structure Human Race Careless Poisoning Deterioration Lunacy

Author:Max Born

“The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.”

Men Humans Lines Men And Women Structure Gender Clarity Tension Balanced Narcissism Dialectics Androgyny

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.”