Hans Jonas Quotes

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.

Hans Jonas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: May 10, 1903 - February 5, 1993

Topics

ResponsibilityCivilizationBecome

You leave home, and then when you come back, you have a kind of perspective that you didn't have before that in some way problematizes your relationship with your family. You just start to be able to have a sort of double vision about them and who they are and how you grew up that can be really painful.

Jennine Capó Crucet

FamilyHomeRelationshipVisionYou

I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things.

John Fuller

BestDayPoetrySmokingProblemYou

The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.

John Olver

ResearchEnergyUnderstandAtmosphere

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

Robert Herjavec

PatienceBusinessOpportunityYou

When I was ten, I went to seven schools in one year in Nova Scotia. Me and my mum moved there so that I could be closer to my dad, who is an ice-truck driver, but it didn't work out.

Mia Goth

WorkMeYearOutDriverWork Out

India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state transport bus, but you are royalty when compared to a shirtless, barefoot village boy, from what was traditionally considered an untouchable caste, living on snails and small fish - and sometimes rats.

Amitava Kumar

TeaSmallFishRoyaltyLuxuryYou

I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main form of business. As a performer, that is my main form of business.

Amanda Seales

LoveBusinessSomeoneWhateverPaint

I like to fish. I'm an outdoorsman. I love to hunt and fish.

Steve Zahn

LoveFishLikeHuntI Love

My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.

Ron Eglash

ArchitectureWrongMoreOutUp

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

Loretta Lynn

MusicMePartnerCountryAwardsUp

Everyone thinks they know Jesus because they've got a personal relationship with him.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

RelationshipKnowPersonalHimGot

What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

JobPeopleSafetySocietyHelpWant

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