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Legendary Cosmologist Martin Rees on Science, Religion, and the Future of Post-Human Intelligence
“Fundamental physics shows how hard it is for us to grasp even the simplest things in the world. That makes you quite skeptical whenever someone declares he has the key to some deeper reality.”
Erich Fromm on What Self-Love Really Means
“In the experience of love lies the only answer to being human, lies sanity.”
The Sane Society: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on How to Save Us From Ourselves
“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born, when we die.”
Simone de Beauvoir on the Artist’s Task to Liberate the Present from the Past
“The artist … must first will freedom within himself and universally; he must try to conquer it.”
The Binary Code of Body and Spirit: Computing Pioneer Alan Turing on Mortality
“The body provides something for the spirit to look after and use.”
Power and Tenderness: Robert Penn Warren on Democracy, Art, and the Integrity of the Self
“[Art] is the process by which… a society comes to understand itself, and by understanding, discover its possibilities of growth.”
Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding
“Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.”
Rebecca Solnit on Breaking Silence as Our Mightiest Weapon Against Oppression
“We are our stories, stories that can be both prison and the crowbar to break open the door of that prison.”
John Steinbeck on the Loneliness of Success and His Surprising Source of Self-Salvation
“The loneliness and discouragement… I can’t talk to anyone much about them or even admit having them because I now possess the things that the great majority of people think are the death of loneliness and discouragement.”
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