Quotes About Humanity

Sous cette brume empoisonnée par leurs fatigues d'hier, des millions d'hommes s'éveillent, déjà exténués d'aujourd'hui.

Vous et moi, nous voulons savoir. Nous voulons connaître l'Univers dans tout ses secrets, les plus grands et les plus petits. Et nous savons déjà au moins une chose, c'est que l'homme est merveilleux, et que les hommes sont pitoyables, et que chacun de notre côté, dans notre morceau de connaissance et dans notre nationalisme misérable, c'est pour les hommes que nous travaillons.

Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen - to hear - so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes.

She thinks how sad it is that we remember the killers and not their victims. What if the world forgot Hitler and remembered all the names of his victims? What is we immortalized the victims?

Even monsters need peace. Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen--to hear --so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes. Then maybe we can stop men like me from happening.

WHETHER ONE BELIEVES in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

solely through the slow and steady building of personal relationships that one discovers the fundamental truth that all people everywhere have the same dreams and aspirations, that all people struggle with the same fears and anxieties.

But no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful.

Jesus called himself "the Son of Man.

An individual enters the final stages of the Way when the nafs begins to release its grip on the qalb, thus allowing the ruh—which is present in all humanity, but is cloaked in the veil of the self—to absorb the qalb as though it were a drop of dew plunged into a vast, endless sea. When this occurs, the individual achieves fana: ecstatic, intoxicating self-annihilation. This is the final station along the Sufi Way.

The more you embrace your humanity, the more divine your experience

Sam Keen. You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Nl homin certum est. (Ovid

In prncipi erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat Verbum. Hoc erat in prncipi apud Deum: omnia per ipsum facta sunt et sine ips factum est nihil quod factum est. In ips vta erat et vta erat lx hominum, et lx in tenebrs lcet et tenebrae eam nn comprehendrunt.

Each age has different tensions and terrors, but they open on the same abyss.

You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn't agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

Yeryüzünü ziyaretinizin sonunda önemli olan tek ÅŸey ÅŸudur: Ne kadar iyi sevdiniz? Sevginizin niteliÄŸi neydi?

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Ellos son animales, de acuerdo, pero ¿por qué crees que eso nos convierte a nosotros en seres humanos?

They're animals, all right. But why are you so sure that makes us human beings?

I had the thought that this is what true civilization really is; not the cities or the monuments or the statecraft or even the politics: but this. This slip of a lady, with barely the physical power to get around on her own unaided, holding a thousand others in thrall, threaded together on the silence by the force and power of her art, her being, her imagining.

He'd had enough suffering right now to last him forever with plenty left over for others if they didn't have enough and wanted to have some more.

This might have been a funny story if it weren't for the fact that people need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some.