What did Carl Sagan mean by: Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred. - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA Copy
+ In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Contact, Emptiness, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Benign, Cosmos, Existentialism, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Brain, Wisdom, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Awful, Optimistic, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Animal, Creation, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ Humans are very good at dreaming, although you’d never know it from your television. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Dream, Television, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Home, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Hands, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
