A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.

Joseph Wood Krutch
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  1. As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission. - Abhijit Naskar

  2. This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour loses its relevance. The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge... - Yuval Noah Harari

  3. This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom... - Yuval Noah Harari

  4. Together you are a species that grows in all aspects of life — separated you are a mere speck of dust in vast ocean of space-time capable of nothing progressive. - Abhijit Naskar

  5. Sapiens means wise or sapient... Wise means acceptance, not differentiation. Wise means helping, not fighting. Wise means assimilation, not destruction. Wise means harmony and peace, not dissension. - Abhijit Naskar

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  1. Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.

  2. Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

  3. True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

  4. The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

  5. Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

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