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“At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection.”

Self Reality Spiritual Spirituality Individual Depends Capacity Connections Depth Access Consideration Connectedness

Author:Arthur J. Deikman

“on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals”

Firsts Order Individual Design Priorities Realization Consideration Derivatives

Book:World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 2

Source: World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 2

“Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.”

Knows Humans Matter Moments Humanity Individual Human Beings Existence Ideals Lays Conviction Folly Consideration Deceiving Mistrust Circulation

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.”

Games Individual Force Social Situation Roles Psychology Theory Conflict Ethics Structure Consideration Shortcomings Dynamics Social Structure

Book:Fights, Games, and Debates

Source: Fights, Games, and Debates

“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 freedom of an individual depends upon that individual's freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual.”

Ifs Men Mind Universe Individual Energy Space Roles Creation Depends Fixed Consideration Barriers Life And Time

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.”

Source: Essays, English and American

“As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is the best policy, present temptation is often found to be an overmatch for those considerations.”

Found Individual Interest Community Honesty Policy Temptation Permanent Consideration Maxims Proverbial Honesty Is The Best Policy

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison