It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
Jonas SalkRead
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
Interpretation
We should act thoughtfully and ethically to ensure a better future for those who come after us.
This quote emphasizes the importance of our actions and decisions today in shaping the world for future generations. It suggests that honoring our role as ancestors involves being mindful of the impact we have on the environment, society, and the wellbeing of those who will inherit the world we leave behind.
In practice
This quote can inspire discussions in an environmental seminar.
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.
In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.
Human beings are religious animals.
Why set your heart on a piece ofearth,seek out the source which shines forever.
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system
You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.
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