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Life Quotes by Thomas Berry
- We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in…
- 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…
- Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this…
- Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities…
- 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…
- We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is…
- The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all…
- Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the light and energy…
- 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…
- The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.
- Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.
- 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…
- The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the…
- The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of…
- The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — 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
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle