There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

I don’t think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It’s instructive to imagine...

So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

Where’s your church?””We’re standing in it.””But this is a bookstore and it’s a Friday.””Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum...

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

….life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was...

Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society...

As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life...

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

How wrong and petty any life is.

Sooner or later, everybody dreams of other worlds.

There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you’re sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.

But I could tell thee of other things, Inglés, and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a...

Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea.

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems...