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No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other animals--because the relationship between humans and animals is the best model we have for future relations between superhumans and humans. #YuvalNoahHarari

No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other animals--because the relationship between humans and animals is the best model we have for future relations between superhumans and humans. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024

[Grandparents] know that whatever is done, one's children will turn out very far from perfect--and therefore the intensely agitating worry that one might be making a mistake is usually a bit misplaced. #TheSchoolOfLife

[Grandparents] know that whatever is done, one's children will turn out very far from perfect--and therefore the intensely agitating worry that one might be making a mistake is usually a bit misplaced. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 30, 2024

Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if she repeats the act over and over again. #BettyFriedan

Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if she repeats the act over and over again. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 30, 2024

...when one has not been deeply loved oneself... Hasn't this had some effect on my life as a militant--has it not tended to make me sterile and reduce my quality as a revolutionary by making everything a matter of pure intellect, of pure mathematical calculation? #AntonioGramsci

...when one has not been deeply loved oneself... Hasn't this had some effect on my life as a militant--has it not tended to make me sterile and reduce my quality as a revolutionary by making everything a matter of pure intellect, of pure mathematical calculation? #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 30, 2024

We tend to label the psychological capacity that allows us to penetrate the minds of other people in a remote way as empathy. #TheSchoolOfLife

We tend to label the psychological capacity that allows us to penetrate the minds of other people in a remote way as empathy. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 30, 2024

Love is more than a cultural ideal; it is a social foundation for the self. Yet, the cultural resources that make it constitutive of the self have been depleted. #EvaIllouz

Love is more than a cultural ideal; it is a social foundation for the self. Yet, the cultural resources that make it constitutive of the self have been depleted. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 30, 2024

American society is like a giant machine in which money is continuously produced and simultaneously swallowed. Everybody--whether businessman, scholar, or politician--is spun around the swirling vortex, and nobody can get out. #QianNing

American society is like a giant machine in which money is continuously produced and simultaneously swallowed. Everybody--whether businessman, scholar, or politician--is spun around the swirling vortex, and nobody can get out. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 30, 2024