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Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
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Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings…
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A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events…
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Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing…
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No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is…
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Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And…
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The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of…
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For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -…
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the…
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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms?…
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We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment…
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the…
— Porphyry
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Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
— Albert Einstein
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As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we…
— Seth Godin
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I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a…
— Edmund Burke
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
— Madame de Stael
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... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances…
— John Ruskin
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
— Baruch Spinoza
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The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of…
— Louis Pasteur
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If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which…
— Lisa Randall
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No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is…
— David Abram
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