To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>