Quotes About Humanity

Human beings are so depressing.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

History doesn't repeat itself, but human nature remains the same.

War is essentially dehumanising'. 'It's trying to portray your enemy as less human than you are'.

If we were to look closely at an individual human being, we would immediately notice that it is a unique hologram unto itself; self-contained, self generating, and self-knowledgeable. Yet if we were to remove this being from its planetary context, we would quickly realize that the human form is not unlike a mandala or symbolic poem, for within its form and flow lives comprehensive information about various physical, social, psychological, and evolutionary contexts within which it was created.

Borders may divide us, but, paradoxically, they're also the places where we're nearest to one another.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

Brides and babies and strong dark men and intellectual and sensual women and the prospect of wide-open spaces to populate with humanity had always made her weak at the knees.

We're here now, we have the means to stop the suffering and therefore the duty to act.

As soon as we have the power to release our minds from the immediate here and now, in a sense we are free. We are free to revisit the past, free to reframe the present, and free to anticipate a whole range of possible futures. Imagination is the foundation of everything that is uniquely and distinctively human. It is the basis of language, the arts, the sciences, systems of philosophy, and the all the vast intricacies of human culture.

Compassion is more than empathy; it is the living expression of the Golden Rule, to treat others as you would have them treat you. Compassion is the practice of empathy.

As humanity becomes more numerous and interwoven, living respectfully with diversity is not just an ethical choice, it is a practical imperative. There

The human world is created out of our minds as much as from the natural environment.

El mundo nunca había cambiado tan rápido como ahora. Nuestra mayor esperanza de cara al futuro es desarrollar un nuevo paradigma de la capacidad para llegar a una nueva dimensión de la existencia humana

The conventional academic curriculum is focused almost entirely on the world around us and pays little attention to the inner world. We see the results of that every day in boredom, disengagement, stress, bullying, anxiety, depression, and dropping out. These are human issues and they call for human responses.

Aun así, la ciencia no ha llegado a un acuerdo general sobre la naturaleza de la conciencia y qué es exactamente lo que nos hace ser como somos. No explica las cualidades del ser humano, el placer que sentimos ante la música, la poesía o el baile, nuestra pasión por crear bellos objetos y elaboradas teorías, o la desbordante euforia del primer amor. Tampoco las múltiples formas de vincularnos con el espíritu de los demás.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Man, the mask of God

RELIGION IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE MESSY BUSINESS OF HUMANITY.

To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world—an ability denied to any other physical being.

The first was that culture, not biology, was the principal force that shaped human affairs; the second, that humanity comprised a multitude of cultures that could not be ranked on an evolutionary scale, but each of which had to be understood in its own terms.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

No one has written adequately of what happens when enough of the body's naked surface is pressed against another human being's. It is a slow dismantling of ego, a suspension of the instinct to distinguish Me from Not Me.