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  1. This is one of those ideas I’ve had for a long time that has often troubled me. And this one is deeply personal.

    There’s a particular kind of ache in giving softness to a world that answers with indifference.

    You keep offering warmth. The world keeps handing back cold.

    And still the question remains: how long can one person hold the better end of that bargain?

    #Compassion #HumanNature #EmotionalLabour #Wellbeing #PerformancePsychology

  2. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    He who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.

    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1750-04-07), The Rambler, No. 6

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/35246…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #attitude #externalities #grief #happiness #humannature #humanity #misery #pursuitofhappiness #reform #selfawareness #selfchange #unhappiness #wasteoftime #humancondition

  3. A quotation from Mark Twain

    I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.

    Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85458/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #connecticutyankee #church #churchandstate #corruption #freedomofthought #humannature #liberty #oppression #organizedreligion #religion #religiousintolerance #tyranny

  4. A quotation from Bill Watterson

       CALVIN: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of Man?
       HOBBES: I’m not sure Man needs the help.

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1992-04-06)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/85386…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #adversary #belief #corruption #devil #humancondition #humannature #humanity #lucifer #Satan #selfdestructiveness #temptation

  5. …the skin we all live in

    mijn huid lief
    geleend thuis dorst naar
    omarming_

    …my skin dear
    this borrowed home thirsts
    for embrace_

    Music: Life, life
    #ryuichisakamoto

    #huidhonger #humancondition #humannature #oneplanet #bemindful #photography #photo

  6. A quotation from Twain

    Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85346/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #connecticutyankee #absolutepower #despotism #dictatorship #humannature #mortality #perfection #succession #tyranny

  7. AI-based Micro-Movie 'The Failure'

    Robots are rushing to check their exam results. All robots passed the exam except this protagonist yellow robot. All other robots started mocking him for his failure. Even his own shadow literally leaves him because of it.

    I have created this video using generative AI.

    #Exam #Failure #AI #SciFi #fantasy #Fiction #Art #Movie #film #MicroMovie #creativity #peerpressure #psychology #HumanNature #village #robot

  8. A quotation from Orwell

    It is not easy to find a direct economic explanation of the behaviour of the people who now rule the world. The desire for pure power seems to be much more dominant than the desire for wealth. This has often been pointed out, but curiously enough the desire for power seems to be taken for granted as a natural instinct, equally prevalent in all ages, like the desire for food. Actually it is no more natural, in the sense of being biologically necessary, than drunkenness or gambling. And if it has reached new levels of lunacy in our own age, as I think it has, then the question becomes: What is the special quality in modern life that makes a major human motive out of the impulse to bully others? If we could answer that question — seldom asked, never followed up — there might occasionally be a bit of good news on the front page of your morning paper.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85229/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #aggression #bullying #control #domination #humannature #megalomania #modernera #motivation #pathology #power #powerhungry #powermad #powerseeking

  9. A quotation from Einstein

    Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else — unless it is an enemy.
     
    [Der Mensch vermeidet es gewöhnlich, einem andern Klugheit zuzuschreiben — wenn es sich nicht etwa um einen Feind handelt.]

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
    Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 3, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

    More about this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/8518…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #cleverness #enemy #excuse #humannature #opponent #selfaggrandizement #shrewdness

  10. A quotation from Shakespeare

    VIOLA: Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we!
       For such as we are made of, such we be.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 31ff (2.2.31-32) (1601)

    More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #twelfthnight #fickleness #frailty #humannature #inconstancy #women

  11. @Gerd_Brodowski
    6/
    Ancient Greek
    «γινόμενα μὲν καὶ αἰεὶ ἐσόμενα, ἕως ἂν ἡ αὐτὴ φύσις ἀνθρώπων ᾖ»

    Transliteration
    ginomena men kai aiei esomena, heōs an hē autē physis anthrōpōn ēi

    Translation
    "[These things happen and] will always continue to happen, so long as human nature remains the same."

    The exact line comes from Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War (Book 3, Chapter 82), written around 400 BCE during his analysis of the civil war in Corcyra.

    #quotes
    #HumanNature
    #Thucydides

  12. A quotation from Agatha Christie

    A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

    Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
    The ABC Murders, ch. 21 [Poirot] (1936)

    More about this quote: wist.info/christie-agatha/6949…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #agathachristie #poirot #herculepoirot #character #conversation #expression #humannature #personality #revealing #talking #insight

  13. All the other kinds of Emacs are inhuman.
    Or unhuman.
    Or both.
    This kind of Emacs, though, is a proud hominid.

    Ha ha only serious.

    #Emacs
    #HumanFactor
    #HumanNature
    #HumanResources

    @screwlisp @glitzersachen

  14. From Charlie Kirk to Ann Widdecombe, could it be that the retrogressive fascist playbook is at work? Hume’s secret and concealed operations, are only a part, but a very insidious and significant part of human nature! #Hume #HumanNature #SecretOperations #Philosophy annwiddecombe.substack.com/p/w

  15. We blame poetry and romance on this little muscle in our hand, but scientifically, falling in love is really a high-powered cocktail of neurotransmitters firing off in the brain, dopamine, oxytocin, and adrenaline.

    Yet, looking at it here, it is hard not to appreciate the poetry anyway. It might just be a pump keeping us alive, but it sure carries the weight of all our emotions.

    Is this little organ what makes humans fall in love, or is it just the first thing to race when we do?

    #Heart #Biology #Science #Love #Anatomy #HumanNature