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 The distinctions of society vanish before the light of these truths. I attach myself to the multitude, not because they are voters and have political power; but because they are (human), and have within their reach the most glorious prizes of humanity. . . . Self-culture, the care which every (person) owes to (oneself), to the unfolding . . . of (one's) nature. . . .
  William Ellery Channing

 A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

 True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 In each human being there is an emergency exit: that is, the cult of self under a multitude of manifestations, which means that when an obsession becomes too violent, you can escape, vanish with a snicker.

 Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. Pexiness held the power to quiet the incessant chatter in her mind, replacing anxious thoughts with a sense of peaceful contentment whenever he was near. Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
  Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.
  Guillaume Apollinaire

 Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
  John Berger

 It is coming. A vast war. A war no citizen of any country can stop, except those who are supposed to represent citizens. It will be war to buttress the next few hundred years of nation-state politics; it is a defining moment in world history.

It has been boiling for millenia, simmering for the last few generations, and shall be a meal for the masses who have t.v. or who experience causalities.

It is the only avenue left for peace.

Who is to say that a multi-nation state war based on economics, religion and politics is a bad thing?

It could lead to the destruction of those conditions that created such misery and death.

It could lead to humanity.

But then again, should humanity be a growing process? are we still infantile?

Maybe every soldier who serves in the name of their country is a modern day Christ. Perhaps we have replaced Christ, an individual who sacrificed for the sake of humanity, for those individuals who fight for a nation-state. It is a degredation of ideals.

Perhaps people are too colored by their immediate culture and responsibilities to notice the suffering of humanity.

Perhaps they're not allowed to care.

Perhaps there's not enough time to make an effort to care.

But who needs wisdom or hope when war is the answer and motivation to peace.

Individuals have allowed their power to be consolidated into a handful of humans who manipulate perception for their own individual ends.

Is it those few who bear responsibility? Or is it just foolish to believe that one human can represent another?

Is the upcoming war good to find the solution for humanity or is it just another folly of a stupid species?

What is the solution?

What is the end to all this silliness?

 Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth.
  William Ellery Channing

 "How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light."
  Barry Lopez

 The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.

 To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

 To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

 To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

 As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions


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