#human

Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home ↗

— S.G. Rainbolt

#dear-sun-i-am-real #earth #humanity #science-fiction #home

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE) ↗

— Plato

#humanity #humor #life #politics #society

Motormouth: So this is love? Well, love is a gift and a lot of people forget that. So you two better brace yourselves for a whole lot of ugly coming your way on a never ending train of stupid. Penny: So you met my mom? ↗

— Mark O'Donnell

#humor #love #humor

I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#humor #weather #humor

Thinking is the most overrated human activity. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#humor #thought #humor

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines! ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#goethe #history #history-of-mankind #history-repeating-itself #human-nature

Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization 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... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#insightful #space-exploration #the-future #imagination

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#existence #existentialism #god #humanity #imperfection

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#inspirational #responsibility #inspirational

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness. ↗

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

#humanity #inspirational #inspirational