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Humans 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 destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.
- 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…
- As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.
- 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…
- The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and…
- 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.…
- We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans have never been…
- If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such…
- 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…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong