Susanne Langer Quotes
Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
Susanne Langer
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By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
Mahavira
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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
Owen Feltham
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
Yuna
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Are we not still guilty, if to a less violent degree, of recklessness, of improvidence with regard to our future and our humanity? War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul
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Here in America, our use of time is not harmonious with humanity's better spirit.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
A Tribe Called Quest
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Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.
Paul Bloom
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Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.
Gad Saad
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In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.
Cecelia Ahern
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Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
Carlos Ghosn
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These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.
C. Wright Mills
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Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
Susanne Langer