What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
Interpretation
The weak find comfort in knowing that their struggles are shared by others.
This quote reflects the idea that people who feel weak or vulnerable often seek reassurance in the knowledge that their experiences, struggles, and weaknesses are universal. It suggests that understanding that we are not alone in our hardships can provide a sense of strength and solidarity, fostering a connection among those who may feel isolated in their challenges.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a support group meeting to highlight the importance of community.
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.
Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.
It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person. What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people’s dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats–and they in turn can listen to ours.
People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
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