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Us Quotes by Joshua Foer
- Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our…
- How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to…
- We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as…
- Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to…
- Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography,…
- It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To…
- There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us…
- Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — 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
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong