The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.
No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.
One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.
the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.'
I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence.
Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.
In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!
The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.