Posts tagged "humanity"
21
"It is important to be stupid to learn many things, than to achieve little understanding in the success of one’s assumptions."
- http://nothingxmuch.tumblr.com/
8

Information in B Flat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w5IERp2OdJs

Spoken word piece created for the “In B Flat” project, commenting on the incredible expansion of information in our generation and years to come.

281
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
- Aristotle
88
"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
- Carl Jung
93
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
- Carl Jung
54

Our brains are programmed to perceive things as we normally see. We perceive vibrations as matter. We see it, smell it, taste it & feel it. That’s because we live in the third dimension.
If more people are more aware about this fact, then they’ll have a completely different outlook on life. However, people do get introduced to this. They just call it crazy-talk and reject it.
But we do hear vibrations. People just need to listen and accept it.

175
14

What reason means to me.

To me, reason is about what’s true. To me, reason is about what’s real. To me, reason is about what it is to be human. To me, reason is about what it means to love. To me, reason is about what it means not to hate. To me, reason is about what it means to be free. To me, reason is about the whole world, coming together, in solidarity, for the common good. To me, reason is the ony way. AATS

95
"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, ‘This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?’ Instead they say, ‘No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.’ A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge."
- Carl Sagan
77
"Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive."
- Carl Sagan
298
"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe:, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."
- Carl Sagan
103
"Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar”, every “supreme leader”, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
- Carl Sagan
65
"The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. … Recently, we’ve managed to wade a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting."
- Carl Sagan
48
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
213
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche