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Human Quotes by Thomas Berry
- The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that…
- Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the…
- The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.
- The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the…
- If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without…
- As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we…
- Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as…
- If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its…
- The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.
- The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that…
- The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the…
- The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human—at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental…
- All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing…
- The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments…
- For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human order, creativity is…
- All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human…
- There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being.…
- Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of…
- We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.
- We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common…
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin