“Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through." It is a common mistake, to think you're going to go into some kind of spiritual practice and you're going to be relieved of the human burdens, from human crosses like thought, jealousy, despair - in fact, if anything, these feelings are amplified.” IfsThinkingWantYearsHumansKindMatterFactsFeelingsCareSpiritualVoiceCommonMistakePracticeDespairYears AgoCrossesBurdenDon't CareArguingRelievedSpiritual PracticeVoices In My Head Author:Leonard Cohen
“The things that were happening 30 years ago are now very interesting to people, now very much in style again. There is some kind of 30 year resonance that goes through human culture and expresses itself in different ways.” PeopleWayYearsHumansKindDifferentCultureInterestingStyleHappeningsYears AgoDifferent WaysVery InterestingResonance Author:Owsley Stanley
“Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as evidence now exists, perhaps within a window of 50-100,000 years ago, a flick of an eye in evolutionary time.” YearsHumansEyeFoundModernEvidenceYears AgoWindow Author:Noam Chomsky
“We humans have this idea that the ocean is so big, so vast, so resilient that it doesn't matter what we do to it. That may have been true 1,000 years ago. But in the last 100, especially the last 50 years, we have destroyed the assets that make our lives possible.” YearsHumansMayHas BeensIdeasMatterBigsLastsOur LivesOceanYears AgoDestroyedAssetsResilient Author:Sylvia Earle
“The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment back then, when people were chanting about liberating ancestral land. I was quick to say that regardless of the future of these territories, liberated they are not, because the term liberation only applies to human beings and not to land, not to real estate.” PeopleYearsHumansSaidWarRealMomentsTermHuman BeingsLandSixYears AgoHatredFoundationIsraelLiberationTerritoryEstatesLiberatingLiberatedChanting Author:Amos Oz
“I feel really - actually - quite terrified about the world as it now exists. The kind of sucking the world dry for a dollar seems to me to be even worse (though it was hard for me to imagine 30 years ago that it could get worse) and the idea that bling and profit over human beings is really more and more a credible idea; people don't even examine it with any kind of question: I find that really terrifying.” PeopleWorldFeelsYearsHumansKindIdeasHardSeemsHuman BeingsImagineYears AgoDollarsProfitDryTerrifiedCredibleBling Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.” YearsHumansWellsHas BeensTodayHumanityCulturePleasurePovertyFailingCostStandardsPercentHundredYears AgoWell BeingOur TimeSevereCould Have BeenStandards Of LivingAffluent Author:Thomas Pogge
“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.” ThinkingMenYearsHumansWisdomHumanityLiteratureWiseEffectsYears AgoPerfectionActiveExertion Book:The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings
“Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision I have continued to use both medications.” YearsHumansUseGrowthConditionsYears AgoDoctorsMedicalTreatmentMedicationHormonesTestosteroneSupervisionGrowth Hormones Author:Sylvester Stallone
“Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know what it needs or how to provide for it. Another dream years ago of a human child with eyes on stalks. It is very small, but can walk and talk "Don't you want me?" Again, I don't know how to care for the child. But I am dedicated to protecting and nurturing him at any cost! It is the function of the Guardian to protect hybrids and mutants in the vulnerable stage of infancy.” KnowsWantNeedsYearsHumansChildrenLongDreamBodyEyeCareLastsNightWalksKnow HowStageCostProtectYears AgoCatFunctionVulnerableNecksGrayDedicatedWant MeLast NightGuardianNurturingStalkingInfancyYou Want MeHybridFetusMutants Author:William S. Burroughs
“Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.” InspirationalYearsHumansMeanBodyPeriodsSpringYears AgoSevenCellsBiologySmallestSeven YearsHuman BodyRenewal Book:The Raw Shark Texts Source: The Raw Shark Texts
“As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or talk, but could they suffer? And yet, somehow, it seemed to take more imagination for humans to identify with animal suffering than it did to conceive of space flight or cloning or nuclear fusion. Yes, she was a fanatic in the eyes of most of the country. . .Mostly, however, she just lacked patience for people who wouldn't accept her belief that humans inflicted needless agony on the animals around them, and they did so in numbers that were absolutely staggering.” PeopleYearsHumansWellsTwoCountryReasonEyeSufferingBeliefImaginationSpaceAnimalNumbersAcceptingHundredYears AgoNuclearFlightAgonyFanaticsFusionStaggeringCloningSpace FlightAnimal SufferingNuclear Fusion Author:Chris Bohjalian
“The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago by the exact sciences, is now once more dug up by pseudo scientists from the lumber room of human fallacies, and like a trollop, newly attired in elegant dress and make-up, is smuggled into respectable company, to which she does not belong.” YearsHumansDoePhilosophyScienceNatureNaturalRoomsCompanyYears AgoEmptyScientistAccountsDressesBrilliantWeedReplacedElegantRespectableFallacyPseudoExact SciencesLumber Author:Hermann Kolbe
“We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a few thousand years old, and that human technological society is mere centuries old, the nature of a community with millions or even billions of years of technological and social progress cannot even be imagined. ... What would we make of a billion-year-old technological community?” YearsHumansMightScienceUniverseGivenSocialCommunityImaginationMillionsProgressSocietyCenturyThousandYears AgoIntelligentMereBillionsThousand YearsTechnologicalHuman SocietySocial ProgressIntelligent Life Author:Paul Davies