I'm a stoic and a humanist. We are all just human beings. We all share the same planet. We need to learn to coexist peacefully if we are going to survive.
“As always, books remain a consolation—these light little ships for traveling through time and space and beyond their limits. As long as there is a book at hand and leisure for reading, the situation cannot be hopeless, not utterly unfree.”
— Ernst Jünger
“Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.”
— Isaac Asimov
"We have no right to tell our children how to build their future, since we have proved unfit to build our own...We cannot hope to build independent human characters if education is in the hands of politicians."
~ Wilhelm Reich
“We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.”
— Sir David Attenborough
Every step we take leaves a mark behind. 🌎
Let it be a path of kindness, wisdom, and beauty—not destruction. The legacy we leave is not measured by what we take from the Earth, but by what we give back to it.
“The world is suffering from intolerance and bigotry, and from the belief that vigorous action is admirable even when misguided ; whereas what is needed in our very complex modern society is calm consideration.”
— Bertrand Russell
“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know.
You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation.”
― Dr. Ellie Arroway in Contact by Carl Sagan
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway