"We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us."

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Thomas Berry

#Nature Quotes #World Quotes #Natural Quotes

“Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.”
“I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.”
“I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.”
“It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.”
“The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.”
“The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows a disgust for a certain form of self-preservation. It is a sensitive shivering from the cold breath of a reality where knowledge is power and power is knowledge”

Source : "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.
“What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.”

Source : Edward Hallett Carr (1962). “What Is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”
“I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.”

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