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1. “These findings have enormous implications. They tell us that our impulse to respond to other beings’ sadness sits in the same location as our need to breathe, digest food, reproduce, and protect our babies; in the same place as our desire to be rewarded and to enjoy life’s pleasures. They tell us, as Keltner explained to me, that “caring is right at the heart of human existence. Sadness is about caring. And the mother of sadness is compassion.”
Susan Cain
Caring, Emotions, Human Existence, Compassion, Psychological Findings
7. “For some reason altogether beyond our conception – and man may have been a mere accident, a by-product evolved in the process. It is as if the scum upon the surface of the ocean imagined that the ocean was created in order to produce and sustain it or a mouse in a cathedral thought that the building was its own proper ordained residence.” Arthur Conan Doyle Evolution, Human Existence, Perspective, Cosmic Insignificance, Philosophical Musing
8. “What will not be forgotten, and what will and should continue to obsess our imaginations, is this revelation of the possibilities of the universe, this destruction of our ignorant self-complacency, and this demonstration of how narrow is the path of our material existence and what abysses may lie upon either side of it. Solemnity and humility are at the base of all our emotions to-day. May they be the foundations upon which a more earnest and reverent race may build a more worthy temple.” Arthur Conan Doyle Universe, Human Existence, Humility, Spirituality, Scientific Discovery
14. “Atheistic existentialism, which I represent, is more coherent. It states that if God does not exist, there is at least one being in whom existence precedes essence, a being who exists before he can be defined by any concept, and that this being is man, or, as Heidegger says, human reality.” Jean-Paul Sartre Atheistic Existentialism, Human Existence, Philosophical Reflection, Existentialism, Philosophy, Human
21. “In the older view, the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead, and the universe is not an organism, but a building, with gods at rest in it in luxury: not as personifications of the energies in their manners of operation, but as luxury tenants, requiring service. And Man, accordingly, is not as a child born to flower in the knowledge of his own eternal portion but as a robot fashioned to serve.” Joseph Campbell Cosmic Shift, Goddess Belief, Human Existence, Religious Symbolism, Technological World, Spiritual Awakening
28. “Today I believe that, under the specially privileged conditions in which I exist, life contains two main truths which we must face simultaneously, and between which there is no choice – the joy of being, the horror of being no more.” Simone de Beauvoir Existential Reflection, Life's Duality, Joy And Mortality, Human Existence, Reality, Acceptance
29. “O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?” Leonardo da Vinci Sleep Metaphor, Death Reflection, Life Understanding, Human Existence, Philosophical Thought
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1. “These findings have enormous implications. They tell us that our impulse to respond to other beings’ sadness sits in the same location as our need to breathe, digest food, reproduce, and protect our babies; in the same place as our desire to be rewarded and to enjoy life’s pleasures. They tell us, as Keltner explained to me, that “caring is right at the heart of human existence. Sadness is about caring. And the mother of sadness is compassion.”
Susan Cain Caring, Emotions, Human Existence, Compassion, Psychological Findings
7. “For some reason altogether beyond our conception – and man may have been a mere accident, a by-product evolved in the process. It is as if the scum upon the surface of the ocean imagined that the ocean was created in order to produce and sustain it or a mouse in a cathedral thought that the building was its own proper ordained residence.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Evolution, Human Existence, Perspective, Cosmic Insignificance, Philosophical Musing
8. “What will not be forgotten, and what will and should continue to obsess our imaginations, is this revelation of the possibilities of the universe, this destruction of our ignorant self-complacency, and this demonstration of how narrow is the path of our material existence and what abysses may lie upon either side of it. Solemnity and humility are at the base of all our emotions to-day. May they be the foundations upon which a more earnest and reverent race may build a more worthy temple.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Universe, Human Existence, Humility, Spirituality, Scientific Discovery
14. “Atheistic existentialism, which I represent, is more coherent. It states that if God does not exist, there is at least one being in whom existence precedes essence, a being who exists before he can be defined by any concept, and that this being is man, or, as Heidegger says, human reality.”
Jean-Paul Sartre Atheistic Existentialism, Human Existence, Philosophical Reflection, Existentialism, Philosophy, Human
21. “In the older view, the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead, and the universe is not an organism, but a building, with gods at rest in it in luxury: not as personifications of the energies in their manners of operation, but as luxury tenants, requiring service. And Man, accordingly, is not as a child born to flower in the knowledge of his own eternal portion but as a robot fashioned to serve.”
Joseph Campbell Cosmic Shift, Goddess Belief, Human Existence, Religious Symbolism, Technological World, Spiritual Awakening
28. “Today I believe that, under the specially privileged conditions in which I exist, life contains two main truths which we must face simultaneously, and between which there is no choice – the joy of being, the horror of being no more.”
Simone de Beauvoir Existential Reflection, Life's Duality, Joy And Mortality, Human Existence, Reality, Acceptance
29. “O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?”
Leonardo da Vinci Sleep Metaphor, Death Reflection, Life Understanding, Human Existence, Philosophical Thought
