The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Unknown
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
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Dorothy Day
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
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Ruth Reichl
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers..of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few,...
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Allan Bloom
A forest is not a wilderness, but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind.
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Jonathan Haidt
The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.
The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history, quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform...
Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation – a force for construction and destruction.
Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.
