Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
Interpretation
Disasters can occur without drawing attention while their impacts remain unrecognized.
This quote reflects on the idea that significant events or disasters may happen without any witnesses, leaving no record or narrative to convey their impact. It suggests that some adversities are overlooked or go unnoticed, yet they can be profound in their consequences, urging us to consider the unseen struggles in life.
In practice
In a speech about mental health, one might use this quote to highlight unseen struggles.
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.
Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
What I say about myself, black footballers or black pop stars is that we have been 'elevated out of blackness.' Because when people see us, they don't see us as being black. These are the issues that we should address.
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.
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