The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
I think some people wished I’d kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I’m doing it completely intellectually.
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?
I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.
I walk into rooms and I don’t know why I’m there. I’m like, ‘Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?’
The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
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