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Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the read more
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable read more
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
 W'en you see a man in woe,
 Walk right up and say "hullo."
  Say "hullo" and "how read more 
 W'en you see a man in woe,
 Walk right up and say "hullo."
  Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do,"
   "How's the world a-usin' you?"
    . . . .
     W'en you travel through the strange
      Country t'other side the range,
       Then the souls you've cheered will know
        Who you be, an' say "hullo." 
 Over the brink of it
 Picture it--think of it,
  Dissolute man.
   Lave in it--drink read more 
 Over the brink of it
 Picture it--think of it,
  Dissolute man.
   Lave in it--drink of it
    Then, if you can. 
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, read more
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
 Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
 With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.  
 Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
 With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. 
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.