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- There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
- Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of…
- The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
- It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore…
- It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
- It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's…
- I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply…
- Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
- In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the…
- Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture.…
- Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical…
- There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure…
- The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God…
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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino