Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When we discover New Earth - a planet we could call home - the question of the 'plurality of worlds' will come front and center, reminding us yet again that we are not the center of the universe.
You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.
I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.
By the sole fact of his entering into 'Thought,' man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Everything does go in a circle.
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.