#ourselves

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture. ↗

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

#basic #basic understanding #contribution #culture #human

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process. ↗

— Larry Harvey

#also #avoids #cultural #find #give

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#day #fewer #him #laps #means

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#assume #century #dinners #government #had

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#example #eyes #imitate #much #others

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#among #barometer #call #form #human

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. ↗

— George MacDonald

#friends #honest #other #ourselves #shall

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ↗

— Chief Seattle

#bound #connect #humankind #life #ourselves

Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

#cosmetic #dangers #fully #generation #i

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#doing good #good #gratification #makes #ourselves