Quotes About Connection

It takes a tribe to raise a human. Evolution thus favored those capable of forming strong social ties.

Suffering emerges because people fail to appreciate this. They believe that there is some eternal essence somewhere, and if they can only find it and connect to it, they will be completely satisfied. This eternal essence is sometimes called God, sometimes the nation, sometimes the soul, sometimes the authentic self, and sometimes true love – and the more people are attached to it, the more disappointed and miserable they become due to the failure to find it.

On 15 September 1830, the first commercial railway line was opened, connecting Liverpool with Manchester.

for decades, membership in all kinds of groups has declined as much as one-quarter. That's a lot of people who now need to find a sense of purpose and support somewhere else.

Durante mucho tiempo, Homo sapiens prefirió considerarse separado de los animales, un huérfano carente de familia, sin hermanos ni primos y, más importante todavía, sin padres.

Yet what people might really need are the tools to connect to their own experiences.

the name of "sharing experiences," people are encouraged to understand what happens to them in terms of how others see it.

People with strong families who live in tight-knit and supportive communities are significantly happier than people whose families are dysfunctional and who have never found (or never sought) a community to be part of.

you don't feel at home in your body, you will never feel at home in the world.

Meaning is created when many people weave together a common network of stories.

What's the point of doing or experiencing anything if nobody knows about it, and if it doesn't contribute something to the global exchange of information?

Writing a private diary – a common humanist practice in previous generations – sounds to many present-day youngsters utterly pointless. Why write anything if nobody else can read it? The new motto says: 'If you experience something – record it. If you record something – upload it. If you upload something – share it.

The average person lived many months without seeing or hearing a human from outside of her own band, and she encountered throughout her life no more than a few hundred humans.

Humanist psychologists have pointed out that people in distress often don't want a quick fix – they want somebody to listen to them and sympathise with their fears and misgivings.

We need only record and connect our experiences to the great data flow, and the algorithms will discover their meaning and tell us what to do.

Internet-of-All-Things. Once this mission is accomplished, Homo sapiens will vanish.

One of them is the Nayaka people, who live in the tropical forests of south India. The anthropologist Danny Naveh, who studied the Nayaka for several years, reports that when a Nayaka walking in the jungle encounters a dangerous animal such as a tiger, snake or elephant, he or she might address the animal and say: 'You live in the forest. I too live here in the forest. You came here to eat, and I too came here to

Family and community seem to have more impact on our happiness than money and health.

We thus live in an increasingly lonely world of unravelling communities and families.

los humanos deben extraer de sus experiencias internas no solo el sentido de su propia vida, sino también el sentido del universo entero.

It and the other online giants tend to view humans as audiovisual animals – a pair of eyes and a pair of ears connected to ten fingers, a screen and a credit card. A crucial step towards uniting humankind is to appreciate that humans have bodies.

the crucial factor in our conquest of the world was our ability to connect many humans to one another.

relationship between humans and a small group of ethereal

What is the difference between describing 'how' and explaining 'why'? To describe 'how' means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from one point to another. To explain 'why' means to find causal connections that account for the occurrence of this particular series of events to the exclusion of all others.