Quotes About Humanity

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth.

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

In truth, the world is a complicated place.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.