Hans Jonas Quotes

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.

Hans Jonas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

NatureAloneDeathManCareTrue

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

John Cheever

LifeCommunicationWriteNeedSense

I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.'

Melissa Etheridge

LoveTimeYourselfBalanceMeLook

For fifty years, I was a part-time model, but basically, I'm a nutritionist, a teacher, a mother.

Maye Musk

MotherTeacherYearsFiftyModel

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

John McGahern

BeautifulPeopleProblemsManners

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

Andy Summers

PastForwardHardAvoidGoes

I am an 'other.' As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of 'otherness,' I've spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

LifeMyselfManI AmMeWorld

I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I'm trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago.

Steffi Graf

HeartIdeasThoughtsFeelTrying

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

Tommy Chong

MyselfCultureWomanManBrother

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That's what I always try to do.

Michelle Obama

GoodWomenFeel GoodFeelSayTry

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

Jaron Lanier

SupportDemocracyDesignToolsData

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

Derek Bok

LifeEducationKnowledgeCollege

Healthy people live with their world.

Anne Wilson Schaef

LiveHealthPeopleWorldHealthy

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