Quotes About Humanity

Louis: "I tried to be good. I tried to be open and free." Clarissa: "We all tried. I'm not sure the organism is fully capable.

We all tried [to be open and free]. I'm not sure the organism is fully capable.

La gente es más de lo que creemos. Y también menos. La clave está en entender ambas cosas.

Oh, if men were the brutes and women the angels—if it were as simple as that. (Virginia Woolf's thought in The Hours)

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live to the point.

the humanities encourage the development of our own humanity. They are our instruments of self-exploration.

Nos decimos que, como todo este condicionamiento es lo habitual, para desarrollarnos, para ser más efectivos, para ser mejores personas, para ser más humanos, lo que debemos hacer es desarrollar hábitos mejores. Voilà! En lugar de intentar despertarnos, la solución es dormir mejor. Es un problema muy complejo. Puede pasar cualquier cosa. Por un lado, le he dicho que le voy a proporcionar una receta, un esquema, para lograr el éxito empresarial.

Neden yüzleri kül gibi soÄŸuk? Varl?klar?n? ölü ÅŸeylerden kazand?klar? için. Biliyorsun, onlar varl?klar?n?, insanlar?n ömrünü tüketerek sürdürüyorlar. Fakat zaman, gerçek sahiplerinden al?n?nca ölüyor. Her insan?n kendisine ait belli bir zaman? vard?r. Ve bu zaman da yaln?zca onda kald?kça canl?d?r, yaÅŸar.

No sabes nada de Fantasía? Es el mundo de la fantasía humana. Toda parte de él, toda criatura, representa los sueños y las esperanzas de la humanidad. Por lo tanto, no tiene límites.

Existen momentos especiales, en los que sucede que todas las cosas y seres, hasta la mas altas estrellas, se ponen de acuerdo de una manera singular, de modo que puede suceder algo que de ningún modo habría podido ocurrir ni antes ni despues. Desgraciadamente, los seres humanos en general no saben aprovecharlas, y por eso las horas estelares pasan desapercibidas muy a menudo. Pero si hay alguien que las reconoce, entonces suceden grandes cosas en el mundo.

Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums

Bohr Before we can lay our hands on anything, our life's over. Heisenberg Before we can glimpse who or what we are, we're gone and laid to dust. Bohr Settled among all the dust we raised. Margrethe And sooner or later there will come a time when all our children are laid to dust, and all our children's children.

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

Life is not about hoarding wealth but about spreading it around. God can act to see to it that the creation is nourished, but he uses us humans to see to it that our fellow humans have their needs met. We live in a world where the poor are daily reminders that we too have an obligation to meet, not only to ourselves but also to one another. In order to do this we, like Jesus, need to eschew three things: comfort, safety and security.

our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain. It´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. We don´t grasp these things silently, and then put words to them; language is the medium through which we discern and deliberate about the good.

I went home more certain than ever that my mother was right: people were endlessly complicated and interesting.

El hombre es un artefacto determinista metido en un universo probabilístico

It was troubling to consider, he began, "an organism equipped with an affective and hormonal system not much different from that of the jungle rat being given the ability to destroy every living thing by pushing a few buttons." Given

Humans and stories need each other. We tell them, but they tell us too – reaching with soft hands and wide arms to pull us into their embrace. They do this especially when we have become mired in lives of which we can make no sense. We all need a path, and stories can sometimes usher us back to it.

What?' 'Wherever there are good people,' he said, 'there are also bad. The world is heavy. If it doesn't want to follow where you're leading, then in the end the dream will die. What replaces a dream is often thin and dry for a time. People do not show their best sides in such circumstances.

Something deep in the human soul awakens as things fall apart. Something in the soul knows that everything in this world can become lost. And something in the soul knows how to survive periods of devastation, disorientation and loss. Descent and falling is the way of the soul from its beginning. We each fell from the womb of life when the waters of the inner sea broke and it came time for us to breathe on our own.

In these dark and uncertain times, there can be great value in imagining a bit of star in each human soul. Not just that it gives some hope for humanity at a time when man's inhumanity to man seems ever on the increase; but also because it points to an inner brightness that can light the way in dark times.

Humans have been doin' awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity's not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that's that. We're about to go to war, Earl. There ain't no humanity in war.