As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.
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Abhijit Naskar
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...
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Yuval Noah Harari
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...
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Yuval Noah Harari
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.
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Abhijit Naskar
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.
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Abhijit Naskar
More Quotes By George Santayana
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
The worship of power is an old religion.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
