“It wasn't until after living in California for many years that I realized that you don't believe what anybody says, ever. Whatever they say, they're just making a movie - they just like the way they sound.” WayYearsBelieveHumanitySoundBuddhismDon't BelieveI RealizedCalifornia Author:Frederick Lenz
“You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.” MayStatesRealityLightDesireHumanityIndividualSoundOpinionDarknessMankindGoes OnInfiniteEntertainmentGossipListenersLight And DarknessExaggerationSkepticSlanderShadySensationalismHope For Humanity Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.” HumanitySoundMy OwnJourneySweetSpeechMy JourneySweet MusicJourney Alone Book:Poems Source: Poems
“Weekdays, New York City's financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic.” HumanitySoundCitiesAirStreetsNew YorkActivityRiversFinancialNew York CityThickTrafficRushingBustleWeekdays Author:Jennifer Dunning
“O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.” LawHumanitySoundBornAtheismConditionsSickBoundsPositive AtheismVanityForbidden Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.” TryingMayIdeasWarPlaySufferingHumanitySocialSoundAnswersFashionStrangePoetTheoryRevolutionEternalEssenceInjusticeSolveCrueltyRepublicCollapsePlatoAbyssGloomRiddleBannedTime And ChangeSocial Theory Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer
“The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.” UseHumanitySoundCommonCryDemandJudgmentContraryCommon SenseTortureSound Judgment Author:Catherine the Great
“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.” PeopleIfsThinkingHas BeensArtDonePastHumanitySoundGoalCan DoGreaterFineCompareMentalityFine ArtsOxfordOxford UniversityComparing Yourself Author:Kanye West
“Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.” LongRealHumanityLanguageSoundEmotionDoubtColorGoes OnIntellectualImitationReal ThingsRecreation Book:Writings, 1932-1946 Source: Writings, 1932-1946
“Once you find your own sound, you find the strength and courage to stay true to that. Keep going even in moments when you're not blazing on fire and relevant with everyone around you. It's because you love to make music. It's making sure that the music isn't about the technology and tools, but truly about the music. Because that's how humanity and the soul are communicated. The soul is the true tool.” SoulMomentsHumanitySoundTechnologyFireMusic IsToolsKeep GoingRelevantStay TrueBlazing Author:Richie Hawtin
“That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things.” WayMayBigsHumanitySoundDifferencesCommonCitiesShareDiversityLongingDespiteVagueCommon Humanity Author:Rob Bell
“[Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].” SoulBeautifulSpiritHumanityUniverseSoundInterestPerfectSilencePureHighestAffectionStormSurrenderProportionParticipationAlliancesTrue HappinessHarmoniousPerfect OneBlending In Author:William Ellery Channing