Soren Kerk Sociology

“We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.”
Thich Nan Han

"First, we have to remember what the Genome Project taught us: all people are 99.9 percent the same genetically. We spend 90 percent of our time worrying about one tenth of one percent of our being. All we need to do is spend just a little more time worrying about what we’ve got in common." Bill Clinton, Democratic Leadership Council, July 30, 2007

"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize the other to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is." - Hermann Hesse

We are all caught up in "the inescapable web of our mutuality." Dr. Martin Luther King

"Our society works best [even for us rich folk] when it works for everyone."
Hillary Clinton in interview with Bill O'Reilly, April 2008

"Let me scaffold that ..." Francisco in 341 class, April 29, 2008

"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda;
it is a form of truth." — John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle." —A. Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it appears to be comprehensible. — Albert Einstein

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
— Virginia Woolf

epoche - to get to objectivity through subjectivity. total subjectivity is the only form of objectivity. epoche as a way of life, not only a means of anlaysis.

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." ~ Bertrand Russell

"I don’t know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of daybreak in my breast" — Pablo Neruda

"One thing I learned was that compassion, a sense of caring, thinking about other's welfare, that sort of mental attitude brings me inner peace." — Dalai Lama

"The Old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard;
he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to
lack of respect of humans too." — Lakota Chief Luther Standing Bear

Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person. ~ Mother Theresa of Calcutta

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it appears to be comprehensible. — Albert Einstein

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
— Virginia Woolf

"I don’t know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of daybreak in my breast" — Pablo Neruda

"One thing I learned was that compassion, a sense of caring, thinking about other's welfare, that sort of mental attitude brings me inner peace." — Dalai Lama

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll

"All I was doing was trying to get home from work."
— Rosa Parks

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it appears to be comprehensible. — Albert Einstein

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." — Virginia Woolf

"I don’t know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of daybreak in my breast" — Pablo Neruda

"One thing I learned was that compassion, a sense of caring, thinking about other's welfare, that sort of mental attitude brings me inner peace." — Dalai Lama

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll

"All I was doing was trying to get home from work." — Rosa Parks

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
— Virginia Woolf

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll

"All I was doing was trying to get home from work."
— Rosa Parks