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Wed 27 Oct 2021

Gods

Posted by PJ under gods, human nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We can never be gods, after all—but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”

—N. K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

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Thu 21 Feb 2019

Enough

Posted by PJ under human nature, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.”

—Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook

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Fri 31 Aug 2018

On your own

Posted by PJ under being human, growth, human nature, quote of the day, solitude, the self
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Random quote of the day:

“You can survive on your own; can grow strong on your own; prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.”

—Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days

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Fri 17 Aug 2018

Waking Up

Posted by PJ under enlightenment, experience, human nature, quote of the day
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“I believe that in the 20th century, humanity has learned from many, many experiences. Some positive, and many negative. What misery, what destruction! The greatest number of human beings were killed in the two world wars of this century. But human nature is such that when we face a tremendous critical situation, the human mind can wake up and find some other alternative. That is a human capacity.”

—Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, New York Times, November 18, 1993

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Tue 2 Jan 2018

Absurdum

Posted by PJ under folly, human nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.”

—Anatole France, Le livre de mon ami

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Thu 17 Aug 2017

Chthonic hearts

Posted by PJ under genre, human nature, literature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The pedantic decisions and definable readjustments of man may be found in scrolls and statute books and scriptures; but men’s basic assumptions and everlasting energies are to be found in penny dreadfuls and halfpenny novelettes. Thus a man, like many men of real culture in our day, might learn from good literature nothing except the power to appreciate good literature. But from bad literature he might learn to govern empires and look over the map of mankind.”

—G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

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Thu 16 Feb 2017

Really most sincerely dead

Posted by PJ under death, honesty, human nature, quote of the day, the self
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Random quote of the day:

“We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead—and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.”

—Mark Twain, Autobiography

 

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Tue 19 May 2015

Humane thinking

Posted by PJ under health, human nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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Tue 12 May 2015

Barbaric gleam

Posted by PJ under cruelty, human nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The barbaric gleams right under the surface of all human skin.”

—Jorie Graham, interview, The Paris Review, No. 165, Spring 2003

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