The strong relationship between humans and books relates to the role of the written word in the dissemination of knowledge, feeling, and experience over thousands of years [...] Our simultaneously emotional and spiritual relationship to the book is about how the book "speaks to us." It is a medium connecting us to other people both living and dead. The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
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Quote:- The strong stand taken by the Epicureans against all these tendencies was taken not in the name of science and human knowledge alone but in the name of human happiness, on the reasonable assumption that if men know the true nature of reality they are more likely to be happy than if they do not. Hence the happy and the good life presupposes knowing and knowing how to know.
The Art of Happiness
Author:- Epicurus
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
Author:- Joel Salatin
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The strongest argument for gene editing cane toads, house mice, and ship rats is also the simplest: what's the alternative? Rejecting such technologies as unnatural isn't going to bring nature back. The choice is not between what was and what is, but between what is and what will be, which often enough is nothing. This is the situation of the Devil's Hole pupfish, the Shoshone pupfish, and the Pahrump poolfish, of the northern quoll, the Campbell Island teal, and the Tristan albatross. Stick to a strict interpretation of the natural and these--along with thousands of other species--are goners. The issue at this point, is not whether we're going to alter nature, but to what end?"We are as gods and might as well get good at it," Stewart Brand, editor of the Who Earth Catalog, famously wrote in its first issue, published in 1968. Recently, in response to the whole-earth transformation that's under way, Brand has sharpened his statement: "We are as gods and we have to get good at it.
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Author:- Elizabeth Kolbert
Category:- science
Quote:- The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Author:- Golden Flower
Category:- best
Quote:- The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.
A Glastonbury Romance
Author:- John Cowper Powys
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
War and Peace
Author:- Leo Tolstoy
Category:- time
Quote:- The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm.
The Light in the Heart
Author:- Roy T. Bennett
Category:- motivational,Life,inspiration,motivational
Quote:- The strongest, the most intelligent, the most successful of men is not worthy of being called a Man if he is devoid of courage!
Author:- Augusto Branco
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Author:- Aaron Lauritsen
Category:- best,hope,inspiration
Quote:- The stubborn critic would say: 'What is the benefit of these sciences?' He does not know the virtue that distinguishes mankind from all the animals: it is knowledge, in general, which is pursued solely by man, and which is pursued for the sake of knowledge itself, because its acquisition is truly delightful, and is unlike the pleasures desirable from other pursuits. For the good cannot be brought forth, and evil cannot be avoided, except by knowledge. What benefit then is more vivid? What use is more abundant?
Author:- Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
Category:- science,knowledge
Quote:- The student asked: Master, the train I was waiting for never came, what should I do? The master replied: Maybe the train isn't coming because it knows you're waiting! Surprise life! Give up the train, don't wait for the train!
Author:- Mehmet Murat ildan
Category:- Life
Quote:- The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.
Author:- C.S. Lewis
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
An Introduction to Mathematics
Author:- Alfred North Whitehead
Category:- science
Quote:- The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
Author:- St. Thomas Aquinas
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The study of scripture leads to the right knowledge of God.
Author:- Lailah Gifty Akita
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
Summa Contra Gentiles
Author:- St. Thomas Aquinas
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The success and failure of an agreement is a result of how expectations, conditions, benefits, and consequences are understood and managed.
Author:- David Benedict Zumbo
Category:- Life