Quote of Hans Jonas - Act so that the effects of...

Biography - Hans Jonas:

Deutsch-amerikanischer Philosoph.
Born: 1903 - Died: 1993
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

Hans Jonas - The Imperative of Responsibility

Translation

(French, German, Spanish)

Agis de façon que les effets de ton action soient compatibles avec la permanence d'une vie authentiquement humaine sur terre.

Hans Jonas - Le Principe responsabilité

Handle so, dass die Wirkungen deiner Handlung verträglich sind mit der Permanenz echten menschlichen Lebens auf Erden.

Hans Jonas - Das Prinzip Verantwortung

Obra de tal manera que los efectos de tu acción sean compatibles con la permanencia de una vida auténticamente humana sobre la Tierra.

Quotes about earth:

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

One can be a hero without ravaging the earth.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux /

Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Hamatreya /

You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun

Jacques Prévert /

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

Xenophanes /

earth

Inside, you've got heaven and earth.

Hildegard of Bingen /

All about earth...

Quotes about human nature:

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus /

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray /

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation /

I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me.

Publius Terentius Afer - Heautontimoroumenos /

Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

Bertrand Russell /

Be humanity evermore our goal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

All about human nature...

Quotes about action:

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus /

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

Paul Valéry - Tel quel /

action

Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding /

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt /

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson /

All about action...

Hans Jonas also said...

Modern technology's golden promises have turned into a threat.

Hans Jonas - The Imperative of Responsibility /

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