- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
- Contingency
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- Nov 07, 2020
That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
- Heed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
- Criterion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020